Re: Got a base system running
On Thu, 1 Aug 1996, Frank Neumann wrote:
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> Adapting the script to create the root disk (rootdisk.sh) is harder; the
> largest problem is that it makes heavy use of fdisk for determining
> swap, Linux native and other partitions, where we don't yet have an fdisk
^^^^^
I'm working on this...It'll be similar to the PC version.
> - syslogd doesn't yet want to work (1.3-8). It starts, but as soon as it
> wants to write something into a file, it exits. I'll have to check older
> buglogs for this one..
>
Either make sure you have a domainname set or apply the diff in critter
complaint #3526.
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> Well, overall - things look pretty promising. Ok, one thing annoyed me a bit:
> dselect is pretty slow when you go through the list of packages. I suppose
> this is not as bad on fast 486 or Pentium machines, but as far as I'm
> concerned, I'll stick with dpkg for now..
>
Definitely, dpkg all the way, dselect is just too slow.
Leland
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