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Re: Checklist for boot-floppies release?



Erik Andersen wrote:
> I was looking over the todo list, looking for something to do, and
> realised that I don't know what the required feature set is for getting
> this thing released. If folks don't mind, lets spend a few minutes and
> nail down what has to be done in the next week or two so we can get this
> thing out the door for potato.
> 
> Here are the things I think should be finished for potato
> boot-floppies:
> 
>     1. dhcp should be integrated 
> 	Task: Modify dbootstrap netconfig
> 	Task: Make the kernel support CONFIG_PACKET and CONFIG_FILTER (bug #50996) 
> 	Task: Add dhcp-client to base
> 	Task: Add dhcp-client to root<x>.bin
> 
>     2. md problem???
> 	Task: dunno, but it almost certainly isn't md, but some driver conflict.
> 
>     3. Implement "install base system from an HTTP server". 
> 	Task: Get Sean 'Shaleh' Perry or Marcel to decide which of their
> 	    solutions is going in, and have them check in whatever they have.
> 	    This ain't no cathedral. :)
> 	Task: dunno
> 
>     4. language-chooser and i18n for boot-floppies 
> 	Task: dunno
> 
> Any other tasks folks can think of?  Keep in mind that since we are going
> to freeze on January 15, huge tasks just arn't going to happen.

Check for the a valid partition table format before/after running fdisk to be
sure the system will be bootable.  On sparc, at least, fdisk supports more than 
one format (Sun disklabel & i386 partition tables comes to mind), but the
workstation will only boot if it find a Sun disklabel.  This problem especially
appears when you plug a disk coming from a PC box where the i386 partition
table is still there and detected as such by fdisk.  Novice users don't know
about the 's' option that create a Sun disklabel (in fact, it is even hidden in
the help message of fdisk in slink but this bug is already fixed in potato).

I planned to implement it at least on sparc but I have had no time to do it
yet.  It seems to be not really difficult, therefore I hope I will have some
spare time to implement it at the beginning of the next month/year.

Regards.

-- 
 Eric Delaunay                 | "La guerre justifie l'existence des militaires.
 delaunay@lix.polytechnique.fr | En les supprimant." Henri Jeanson (1900-1970)


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