Re: [leaf-devel] runtime fixup of /etc/inittab for serial consoles

2006-09-05 Thread Eric Spakman
Hi Paul, Sorry for the delay getting back to you, just got back from a week on the playa lighting up dust storms with 2.4 and 5.8ghz wifi... :-) ;-) The reason I'm not really enthusiastic about this idea is that it adds a new dependency between sylinux, initrd and the etc package and also

Re: [leaf-devel] runtime fixup of /etc/inittab for serial consoles

2006-09-04 Thread Paul Traina
Sorry for the delay getting back to you, just got back from a week on the playa lighting up dust storms with 2.4 and 5.8ghz wifi... :-) The reason I'm not really enthusiastic about this idea is that it adds a new dependency between sylinux, initrd and the etc package and also adds extra

Re: [leaf-devel] runtime fixup of /etc/inittab for serial consoles

2006-08-27 Thread Eric Spakman
Hi Paul, What it saves them from having to do is hand mess with etc.lrp on a second system the very first time they load the flash. There is absolutly no need for that. We will release some specific configdb packages for certain types of hardware, so it's just a matter of copying the right

Re: [leaf-devel] runtime fixup of /etc/inittab for serial consoles

2006-08-26 Thread Eric Spakman
Hi Paul, Hmmm, not sure. I find it a bit of a clutch. What happens if an user edit the inittab for other changes like mgetty? I prefer specific configdb/sylinux.cfg for different hardware where also other changes can be done. Eric --Apple-Mail-3-25159442 Content-Type: multipart/mixed;

Re: [leaf-devel] runtime fixup of /etc/inittab for serial consoles

2006-08-26 Thread Eric Spakman
Hi Paul, A real /etc/inittab is always present, it's part of the etc.lrp package... Eric Look at the script. If a real /etc/inittab is present, it doesn't do its magic. It only does it if the proto is present and /etc/inittab is not. This is one of the most annoying things for a new user

Re: [leaf-devel] runtime fixup of /etc/inittab for serial consoles

2006-08-26 Thread Eric Spakman
Hi Paul, Not if it's not. You're the software developer, you make the distribution etc.lrp. The whole point of this thing is to get people running with a working console. Once they're on their feet, i.e. if they edit the /etc/inittab or do a backup after the real inittab is working,

Re: [leaf-devel] runtime fixup of /etc/inittab for serial consoles

2006-08-26 Thread Paul Traina
Eric Spakman wrote: Hi Paul, Not if it's not. You're the software developer, you make the distribution etc.lrp. The whole point of this thing is to get people running with a working console. Once they're on their feet, i.e. if they edit the /etc/inittab or do a backup after the