> > - Will I need to make boot/root floppy images?
>
> - It sure would be convenient. But if it's too much trouble, then I guess
> I could manage with a SuSE or Debian boot floppy to prepare the disk and
> install the basic packages (but that's just me ofcourse).
Well, basically I mean having boot/root floppies as opposed to having
that stuff on a bootable CD. But I can certainly understand how floppies
would be useful for this sort of thing, so I'll get working on that once
X is packaged up.
We'll just have both. That should make things easy for people who need
floppies and for people who have cd drives laying around.
> > - Would an ISO be helpful? If so, I could crank one off every night or
> > every other night. Doing so more often than that on my Pentium 90
> > (48 megs of ram) would be slow.
>
> - Since I would have to burn all the packages to a CD-ROM to transport
> them to the Alpha anyway (until I get some networking running on it),
> then a .iso image would ofcourse be the easiest thing - but I don't mind
> downloading the packages and just dumping them to a CD-ROM myself... Like
> with the boot/root floppies, it would be convenient but not a necessity.
Okay...turns out that I can mkisofs my entire package tree (approx 350
megs of stuff) in about 90 seconds on the machine that will be doing all
this. So, ISO images are no problem. I'll just whip up a script and
a crontab and crank them off every night or so.
I was thinking it would take much longer.
> > - For now at least, would everyone be happy if I just made a generic
> > kernel image, or should I make ones geared towards each type of
> > machine?
>
> I guess we could start off with a generic one (wouldn't that be what the
> default boot disk should use anyway). And then if some peoples boxes have
> trouble with that one, then make one or two geared towards the problem boxes.
My idea was at first, having just a generic image (generic.s?). Then once
it was time to get this ready for a release, create a generic SMP image.
However, having images for quirky machines is a good idea, and this is
an area where people will be able to contribute. I'll probably hand off
kernel image maintenence for those weird machine to the people who have
them.
--
Chris Lumens - chris@slackware.com - KG6CIH
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