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Re: testing and no release schedule



On Mon, Mar 29, 2004 at 02:32:51AM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote:
 
> A few comments before I burn the image and reboot:
> 
> 1. /tools contains i386 tools, rather unneeded

Patch submitted.

> 2. No *.icon for the cdrom (disk.info was it?), the install or the doc
>    folder

Patch submitted.

> 3. install/amiga/StartInstall* scripts:
> 
>   - No "ramdisk_size=16384" (ramdisk is 15361024 byte big)
>   - '-k linux.bin' should read '-k vmlinuz'
>   - '-r root.bin' should read '-r ../root.bin' (unix style path) or
>     '-r /root.bin' (AmigaOS style path)
>   - missing 'devfs=mount' or is that mounted on boot by default on amiga?
>   - nolangchooser in StartInstall but not the others
> 
>   amiboot-5.6 -d -k vmlinuz -r ../root.bin root=/dev/ram ramdisk_size=16384 devfs=mount nolangchooser

I don't think we need the devfs or nolangchooser anymore, please let me
know if I'm wrong. All the other changes have been made and should show
up in the daily builds.

> 4. minimum ram requirement to just boot seems to be >32MB, thats just
>    the ramdisk and the copy of it in tmpfs. Not counting the installer
>    itself.

Well I have a successful report from a mac install in 24MB ram, but
that's a 2.2.25 kernel.

Thanks,

Stephen

-- 
Stephen R. Marenka     If life's not fun, you're not doing it right!
<stephen@marenka.net>

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