Hi Chris,
I just wanted to tell you that I'm going to play with
the boot disks tonight. I got some floppies and some
blank cd's. I had to get a longer cable for my scsi
drives, so that the burner could be installed. I
upgraded to a new version of Tru64, and so that's what
I've been playing with for the past few days. I'll let
you know how it goes with the bootdisks. I'll also
start playing with making a bootable cd.
--- Chris Lumens <chris@slackware.com> wrote:
> I've fixed the major bugs in the parts of the
> installer that I commonly
> use. You should now be able to boot, use fdisk, and
> then use setup as you
> would normally expect to. Booting may be a bit
> tough. Making the hard
> drive may be tough as well. I didn't get that far.
>
> In addition, I fixed a lot of other little bugs that
> were creeping around
> in various packages that tripped up the installer.
> There are more little
> ones out there; finding those is left as an exercise
> to the tester. And
> there's also a new hdsetup which merges in all the
> fixes I made to the
> rootdisk utilities. In summary:
>
> What's known to work
> ====================
> - install from cd
> - install from pre-mounted directory
> - install from partition
> - pick your kernel from the cd
> - configure your system
> - mount/format multiple partitions
> - full installs
>
> What's known not to work
> ========================
> - picking the block size when you format a device
> (they're stuck at 4096
> for now)
>
> What's not known either way
> ===========================
> - everything else
>
>
> I've made the master cd as well. There will be no
> publically-available
> changes to the tree until at least Tuesday. Since
> we are date-stamping
> the demo discs, I don't want to have made updates
> later on in the same day
> as they are stamped. That can only lead to
> confusion. Hopefully, I will
> take some time off and not make updates until
> Wednesday or Thursday :)
>
> I'll answer more of the mail that rolled in today
> sometime on Monday. In
> the meantime, feel free to send me questions, bug
> reports, and so on.
> I'll deal with them once I wake up.
>
> I'd like to thank everyone for helping out so far.
> Even though it's just
> a demo disc, I wanted it to be as good as we can get
> it, and it's looking
> nice. It even feels sort of like a release (well,
> assuming you can get
> around the obvious bugs, inconsistent version
> numbers, random mentions of
> LILO in the installer help, and no program to make
> the system bootable).
> But it's certainly something to be proud of.
>
> I'll be sending out demo discs to those of you who
> wanted one just as soon
> as I get them. That may be way at the end of the
> month. I don't really
> know how cd replication goes.
>
> --
> Chris Lumens - chris@slackware.com - KG6CIH
>
@n=(-42,-85,-83,-19,65,2,-10,-10,-15,-3,2,-10,73,-4,8,-4,2,79,8,17,15,7,14,2);
> print map{chr(-$n[$i++]+ord)} sort(split(//,'place
> random string here')),"\n";
>
>
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