-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Paul Sokolovsky schreef: > Hello angstrom-distro-devel, > > From the previous experience, one of the pressing issues with > popularizing an embedded Linux distro was a complex and tangled > installation procedure, which not all users can follow. Other problem > is that some distros give up inherent Linux flexibility and force > users to follow rigid procedure of installation, e.g. providing > support only for one installation destination, or supporting different > destination in very tangled and inconsistent ways. > > During last few months, myself and other contributors worked on > bootloading solution which would satisfy the following criteria: > > 1. Implemented as a Linux-based user-space application, taking > advantage of of the contemporary technologies, such as early userspace > configuration and initramfs. > 1. Light-weight and modular. > 2. Easily extensible. > 3. Small size. > 4. Machine-independent. > 5. Supports booting from flash devices, disk partitions, loopback > images, and NFS, to start with.
Great! Shall we put this on the TODO for the 2008 release next to overhauling the initscripts? regards, Koen - -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] will go go away in december 2007, please use [EMAIL PROTECTED] instead. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (Darwin) iD8DBQFHYNqTMkyGM64RGpERAhrHAJ9vVSddi4urhsR5ZARr0gYG0ZAs+gCgguBu /qaUKW7QnbXFP/qlv2ep3H4= =XTzp -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Angstrom-distro-devel mailing list Angstrom-distro-devel@linuxtogo.org http://lists.linuxtogo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/angstrom-distro-devel
