Re: Woody release?
On Tue, 17 Apr 2001, Marcus Brinkmann wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 17, 2001 at 06:36:41PM +1000, Glenn McGrath wrote:
> > Obvious differences that will arise for core installer components are
> > The core installer components will need to understand settrans to do
> > things like mount, ifconfig. I was thinking of maybe putting a wrapper
> > around settrans to enable consistent handling.... not sure about this
> > idea though.
>
> There already is a wrapper for mount. We can stick with something compatible
> or implement lacking features in the Hurd mount.
>
>
> ifconfig we have, but settings using it are not permanent, so we still want
> to do the real settrans for pfinet.
>
> But that is all very simple.
>
> > Size may be more of an issue under the Hurd as well, for linux will are
> > aiming to get the kernel and core components onto 1 floppy. uClibc helps
> > a lot under linux, it saves a few hunder kB compared to glibc.
>
> We will need two disks, one boot, one root disk (kernel and root fs on
> different floppy images).
>
> There is another issue. Some udebs depend on the linux framebuffer device to
> build. I don't know how much of this is really used (optionally I hope). If
> you can add protections for that code to only build on linux, this would be great.
If the installer basically remains the same it will be a matter of
fiddling to update. All the floppy flavours are produced. If the
installation scheme changes radically then it will be a different story.
Phil.
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