[RULE] Slinky 0.4 - the work has started

[Franz Zahaurek]

Hi Ingo and all,

"Ingo Lantschner" <ingo lists vum at> writes:

> 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!

By now there are only two alternativ keymaps to us, german (that's for
me) and french (I thought this could be usefull for vumbox).  If
anybody needs others too, please request.  I documented how to create
additional keymaps in: http://www.fzk.at/SLINKY/localized_keymap_en.html

> 	- 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, ....)

But I created only few network-driver modules for 0.4.02 to keep
disk1 small and it must have been by chance that you just needed them.

>
> 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.

I tried to change as less as possible.  What special change do you mean?

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

I think, most things that follow are beyond the actual scope of slinky
as an installer.  You could call the result a new mini distribution.
My primary convern was to adopt the basic installation to FC2.
E.g. busybox 1.00-rc3 also has applets dpkg and dpkg-deb.  So it
should be possible to also install debian with slinky if we provide
the corresponding package lists and change rpm to dpkg.

>
> * 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

I added debug-statements to both scripts.  You see what script is
called and what is missing.

> * change of keyboardlayout in a more early state of install

I put the keyboard selection just at the begin of setup.sh.  There is
no earlier state.

> * some strange messages during install

Yes, these are debugging messages due to set -x.  Of course this
should be informative not confusing.  In a final version this has to
be removed.

> * 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 :-)

By now I cannot provide services like CVS over the web - send your
changes to me and I will create new images.

I am still waiting for Marco to add the docs he requested from me and
disks I provided to the rule-project site.

In parallel I try to get more web-space so I can provide the
whole devel-tarball to create a bootable slinky-CD for FC2.  I would
like better if this could take place on the rule-project site.

- Franz
-- 
Franz Zahaurek                        fzk at fzk.at
Gymnasiumstr. 26/7                    http://www.fzk.at
1180 Wien

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