stuff I could do

[bruce@perens.com (Bruce Perens)]

Here is stuff I can do from the "todo" file, can I have feedback on whether
I should work on any of these, or something else, please?

	Thanks

	Bruce

> - [2000.05.15] dialog box msg for "harddisk" option is very obscure
 
Should not be a problem for me to do.

> - use busybox.deb from woody, remove utilities/busybox altogether
>   Erik Andersee promised to help
 
It's Erik Andersen. I can do this if he is busy with other stuff. I created
the original busybox, although it is much bigger now than my contribution.
I can also help him with netkit-tiny if necessary.

> - fold out mklib.sh (library reduction) into it's own package
>   Marcus Brinkmann promised to do this
 
I hear this also needs to be repaired. I can do this if Marcus is busy.
I wrote the predecessor of his mklib.sh .

> - eliminate all "configure the base system" steps -- they should be
>   handled, ideally, be debconf stuff run devolved into the right
>   packages
 
Is this the job of the boot-floppies project, or the installer project?

> - eliminate lilo configuration
 
Replace it with what?
Is there a release of GRUB that works with Reiser FS?
LILO is more filesystem-independent, which is both its curse and its virtue.

> - would be nice to have as good RAID support as we can manage
>   (possibly leading to initrd even?);

Wish-list item?

> another nice thing would be reiserfs support, see
> <URL:http://lists.debian.org/debian-boot-0010/msg00191.html> --
> would need mkreiserfs, devfsd, kernel 2.4.x w/ reiserfs patch

Note the question above about GRUB and Reiser FS.

> - Anthony Towns has a new base-install package that will dynamically
>   install base; we need to adapt to use that (but the .deb isn't even
>   available yet).

Wish-list item?