Subject was Re: [leaf-devel] leaf-tools overview (cdb, trig, tmpl)
On Mon, 2004-07-05 at 23:07, Ray Olszewski wrote:
> At 09:41 PM 7/5/2004 -0700, Chad Carr wrote:
> >Until we can throw a bunch of modules on the boot media and detect
> >hardware, this is simply not a possibility. Not a limitation (or a
> >responsibility) of the configuration database or any of the infrastructure
> >components.
> >
> >Theoretically, a pre-configuration utility (as simple as a Makefile or as
> >complex as a Java program) making use of the cdb structure will have a
> >much easier time of building a bootstrapped floppy image for a newbie than
> >without it (modules included!)
>
> Years ago, back in LRP days, there was a Web-based configuration system
> that would construct a modules.lrp file for you. It handled other things,
> like the various ip_masq_* modules, but its main purpose was to simplify
> NIC support. It failed for no fundamental reason, just the site's developer
> losing interest and nobody else picking it up when LRP changed kernels.
>
> It would be nice to think again about a configuration system that would
> build a floppy image that had a base kernel, suitable modules, an etc.lrp
> package with the right /etc/modules file, and the mix of packages suitable
> to a specific system ... maybe even including choices of firewall packages.
> But I Think that is not our immediate concern for using cdb.
Ray,
ROM-o-matic provides similar functionality for Etherboot. If someone
would like to work on this for LEAF branches, I'll try to figure out how
to host it.
ROM-o-matic.net
http://rom-o-matic.net/5.2.4/
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