Re: Announcing xorriso-0.3.6

["Thomas Schmitt" <scdbackup@gmx.net>]

Hi,

Joerg Schilling wrote:
> My trick is to implement standards in the Solaris kernel 
> to get support for standard compliant features in mkisofs ;-)
> [...]
> The best I can do is to implement things in the kernel and to convince
> people to do more collaboration.

That is quite a luxury situation.

Could you please point the person who is
in charge for High Sierra FS to my bug
report about missing recognition of RRIP-1.12 ?

  http://defect.opensolaris.org/bz/show_bug.cgi?id=7199

It is two weeks old and got no reply yet.
I found the user community of Solaris very
friendly but with the technical openness
there could be some improvements.


As we are at it and you are my inofficial
Solaris distributor:

Why is Schillix-0.6.7 as Live CD not ready
for preforming
  ./configure && make
although all tools are in the ISO image ? 

After booting one needs only to set 5 symbolic
links to make it a rough but sufficient
system for software building:
  m=/media/SchilliX-0.6.7
  s1=$m/opt/gcc-3.4.3/bin
  # Get the tools for "./configure ; make"
  ln -s $s1/gcc         /usr/bin/cc
  ln -s $s1/gas         /usr/bin/as
  ln -s $s1/cpp         /usr/lib/cpp
  ln -s $s2/gmake       /usr/bin/make

  # Get system include headers
  rmdir /usr/include
  ln -s $m/usr/include  /usr/include

  # Make room on the ramdisk
  rm -r /usr/perl5

I took the freedom to add a session with
a small script and the xorriso tarball to
the image.
(The boot record could be copied unaltered
 and still worked for the two-session image.
 Currently i would not know how to produce
 it matching to the boot image.)

Is there a way to make the RAM disk larger ?
(The 70+ MB of perl5 give enough room but i deem
 the method unelegant if there are still 600 MB
 RAM free.)


> I would call it NIH Syndrom :-(

I often hit the Not Invented Here receptor of
people with my ideas.
Rather than quarreling i prefer to implement
them and let them compete with what was
already invented decades ago.

Sometimes it does not look too bad.


Have a nice day :)

Thomas