Matt Schalit wrote: > > David Douthitt wrote: > > > The bootable CDROM is a perfect example of this quandry. Syslinux can > > boot the CDROM, and load the Linux kernel, and so on - but the "floppy" > > image is not accessible by Linux (only by syslinux). So once the kernel > > is loaded and running, all packages must come from the CDROM itself, not > > from the bootable image. > > I like net loading, and I don't mind doing so after the > system is 98% up and booted, meaning as an > > RCDLINKS="2,S99" > > sort of netloading snarf script.
My idea was to be able to netload with only root.lrp loaded - this means you can boot from write-only media unsupported by the Linux kernel and load EVERYTHING else from the network. > Personally, I think the boot diskette is overtly generic. > I must have got back about 100k after I deleted all those .o > modules I didn't need. This is the backlash from a one > size fits all mindset. I'm not trying for one size fits all but rather "plug and play." There is, in the setup process, a step that attempts to remove excess modules. There also was at one time, a process that would delete all modules that failed to load on startup. This way, all unnecessary network modules would be deleted automatically - but that strikes me as too draconian. > Ok, so nobody looks forward to maintaining a whole bunch > of versions of their release, but we have no web based > root.lrp/modules.lrp creator to make a custom boot setup. > > How hard would it be to click some check boxes? > I can't believe how much space I have on my boot floppy > right now, about 109KB. The setup program should be able to do some of that. > Oh, and David, does ipkg need a umt-boot fuction call > in the space() function? It's leaving the floppy > mounted. Perhaps. I'll have to look. > And ntop seg faults. That's new to me. Remember that ncurses on the development versions is version 5 - the setup disk probably still has ncurses 4 on it. Try that. _______________________________________________ Leaf-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-devel
