[RULE] Slinky 0.4 - the work has started

[Ingo Lantschner]

Hi Franz&others,
really, its a big, big step forward, that we can now install Fedora Core 2
on low memory systems - thanks again to Franz! Beside of beeing now
up-to-date again (as required by the name of this project :-) I would like
to mention 2 other features from Slinky-04.x:
	- Keyboardlayouts other than us durng setup are supported - very helpfull!
	- Installations over the net are possible - this will reduce dramatically
the costs and effort we have f.e. in Kinshasa, setting up classrooms
(today, we walk with one CD-drive from PC to PC, open the case, ....)

I did several installations with Slinky 0.4.02 on a P1/100 MHz with 64 MB
RAM and only 1 GB HD and tried to implement some modifications into a new
created Slinky-0.4.03. Somehow it worked, f.e. I could edit the
package-list, so that fewer packages were installed, I was able to make
new img which reflect these changes. Also I got some insight into Slinky
and in how Franz worked - f.e. that he still uses slinky.config, but in a
slightly different way than his predecessor.

But now there are several things I would like to clearify/implement, which
are a bit to difficult for me:

* TinyX/XFree86
* iceWM
* Cleanup of slinky.config
* Sendmail-Server is installed in *any* case (this is an old bug known
also from former Slinkys)
* rulrc.sh  vs. postinst.sh
* change of keyboardlayout in a more early state of install
* some strange messages during install
* How to load Second Stage Disk from NFS
* DHCP-Client support during NFS/FTP-install
* I can not use my own created rule-developement tree to produce a working
disk1.img - I have no clue why. The disk2.img works fine.
* New README

I see 2 possibilities: Either to have some common point to exchange files
(CVS?) or Franz and me we sit together for an morning/afternoon, and try
to make these above points clear. Franz, pls. what do you think? May be we
can even implement both of them - you are always very welcome in my house,
w/ or w/o CVS :-)

RU soon, Ingo.


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