Wow, thanks everyone for the wealth of information. I will chew on this for awhile and see where it takes me...
Eric -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Charles Steinkuehler Sent: Wednesday, February 13, 2002 4:55 PM To: Eric B Kiser; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Leaf-user] Having trouble finding what I am looking for... > I have been keeping up with all of the lists for quite some time and have > been doing a considerable amount of research on the LEAF site, yet I am > either not finding what I am looking for or I am still shamelessly confused. > First, I will detail what I am trying to accomplish then I will attempt to > list my questions in some semblance of order. I am still a, relatively, new > user of Linux. Your patience is appreciated... > > Below is the foundation that I need for my project: > > 2.4.x kernel > iproute2 > iptables > ipv4 and ipv6 > gnu zebra > openssh > frees/wan > > On with the questions... > > 1) Is their currently a LEAF distro using the 2.4.x kernel and glibc 2.1.3? There is some experimental going on with Dachstein that I believe meets this criteria: http://leaf.sourceforge.net/devel/kapeka/ http://leaf.sourceforge.net/devel/jnilo/ > 2) I was looking at Bering until I realized that it was using glibc 2.0.x > and then I found that it also did not have all of the kernel features that I > wanted. I have not been able to find the page with that information again. > Could someone provide me with a pointer to that page? See above...when you "loose" a page like that, start looking through the developer pages on LEAF...saddly, they're not indexed real well yet... > 3) If their is a distro that I want to use but want to replace the kernel > with my own is it as simple as compile kernel, apply patches, copy to disk > as "linux"? Basically, yes. You have to watch out, however, to make sure you get *all* the patches. With a 2.4 kernel, you probably won't be using the LRP patches (linuxrc-always, and initrd-archive), so will need an intial ramdisk that takes this into account... > 4) David Douthitt had stated that the LRP patches were no longer needed in > some situations. It was my understanding that they were what made LRP what > it was and were the foundation of LEAF. If someone could explain this I > would greatly appreciate it. See the developer list archives...in summery, these patches allow the kernel to boot using a tar.gz archive as an initial ramdisk, while the "normal" kernel requires a gzipped filesystem image. Fundamentally, the LRP patches mainly make backing-up and editing the initial ramdisk easier, but don't really allow you to do anything you can't do with a stock kernel (hence the fact that these patches never made it into the mainstream kernel). > 5) Does the version of glibc on your machine have an affect when compiling > the kernel? No...the kernel does *not* use any libc functions...it is fully self-containted. Charles Steinkuehler http://lrp.steinkuehler.net http://c0wz.steinkuehler.net (lrp.c0wz.com mirror) _______________________________________________ Leaf-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user _______________________________________________ Leaf-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user
