WOW! Too many great suggestions for me to comment on them all... > Thanks for releasing the Dachstein-CD. I have had fun playing with it. > I have not created a LEAF CD before so I may be able to provide some > newbie impressions:
Often the best kind...I like to know what people find confusing (or easy to use)... > Since it is a CD and the current ISO is only 17M, it would be nice to > include say a dosutils directory with rawrite.exe. Attached is a file > called mkfloppy. It calls rawrite using all the correct command line > arguments along with the bootdisk.bin file. Great suggestion! > You describe three configuration options depending on if your BIOS > allows you to boot from a CD. I believe bootdisk.bin will work for both > one and two. I realize it would be overkill, but you could provide an > image file for people transitioning from eigersteinbeta2. LOL I realize > it would just have the lrpkg.cfg file with > etc:R,local,modules,ramlog,dhclient,dnscache,dhcpd,weblet,lncurses,vim > in it but it might make it easier for new people using the CD. Besides > its nice going into lrcfg and seeing a list of packages to configure > when you first boot the CD. Noted & will be fixed... > I thought it would be clearer to describe just one of the CD-ROM boot > configurations at a time from start to finish. That way a user would > not have to remember which variation he was trying to configure as he > read--worked for me. ;-) Attached is a proposed README.TXT file with > most of it this section rewritten. I don't believe the second > configuration is complete. Thanks for the contribution...I'll fold in a lot of your mods... > Moreover, I had fun playing with the image. I have documented many > other tasks in the readme.txt file. I started a FAQ with one of the > questions on the devel mailing list. One section is a quick how to on > configuring a cd burner under Redhat. I even describe how to customize > the image, but I appear to be boot challenged. LOL...my modified disk > image did not boot after I added a dosutils directory, etc. I realize > there are many ways and tools to create a boot able ISO image, but I > would be happy, if there was a complete example under Linux. Would > someone please look at the readme.txt and show me what is missing to > make the iso boot? Did you use the mkisofs command I provided? If so, it *should* boot... > I realize that the random number seed is not saved on existing LEAF > systems. I am thinking this might be a security weakness (it might make > it easier to guess sequence numbers, etc). Is there a way to save this > seed on the config floppy as the system is halted or rebooted? Possibly...I'll think about how to do this... Charles Steinkuehler http://lrp.steinkuehler.net http://c0wz.steinkuehler.net (lrp.c0wz.com mirror) _______________________________________________ Leaf-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-devel
