David:
Wow, a ton of progress.
Have you considered doing a network boot? That is,
just store the md5 hash on the CDROM that're associated with
the packages to load, then just put those packages on, say,
sourceforge.
Probably a million holes in the idea, but I thought
I'd float it out.
-Scott
On Wed, 4 Apr 2001, David Douthitt wrote:
> I've been working on other things; I hope to have a usable booting
> CDROM shortly. The system should be able to boot from CDROM; however,
> what I'd REALLY like is to be able to 1) boot from CDROM (easy), then
> 2) load packages from CDROM (harder).
>
> The ideal would be to be able to pick up a configuration file which
> contains a list of files to load. I thought I had this set up until I
> realized that this file loads packages from whatever volume it happens
> to be loaded from.
>
> What I really need is:
>
> * A way to "disconnect" the specification of packages to load FROM the
> actual source of those packages.
[snip]
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