Re: [Rule-list] About RH 8 not supporting 486

[Michael Fratoni]

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On Tuesday 22 October 2002 10:27 pm, Michael Fratoni wrote:

> OK, seems to work. I still need to make a few modifications, so I'm not
> releasing it just yet. How's this for size:
> $ ls -sh slinky-v0.3.1.iso
>  19M slinky-v0.3.1.iso
>
> It's a bootable ISO which starts the slinky installer, and provides the
> i386 kernel package. It also contains the .img files required to make
> boot floppies. We run the slinky installer, ask for the Red Hat disks,
> and at the end, ask for the slinky disk to install the kernel.

OK Folks,
I need victims, err, testers. Yeah, that's the word I was looking for. ;)

It seems to work. I'm currently working on setting slinky up to read a 
config file. You'll be able to fill in most of the variables before 
starting the install. The installer will parse the config file, and only 
ask for the info it needs. Of course, we will include a well commented 
sample config file for users to modify to suit their needs. However, 
that's not ready just yet. ;)

slinky-v0.3.2.iso is ready however. It's a little bigger, at 25MB, but the 
ISO contains all the modules for the installer kernel. This should be 
helpful for anyone needing various modules for older/oddball hardware.

The main change to make slinky use the ISO image is an additional question 
during install. You will be prompted for the location of the stage2 
files. Allowable answers at this point in time are "floppy" or "cdrom". 
It _should_ install a kernel appropriate for the machine it is installing 
on. If the i386 kernel isn't found/available, it _should_ fall back to 
the kernel-BOOT rpm package. This capability is still very much a quick 
hack, but hopefully works for cdrom, http, and ftp installs. I've only 
tested the cdrom version. I'd like to get some feedback before I do too 
much work getting additional install methods working.

I'm posting the files, including the ISO, to the FSF site at:
http://savannah.nongnu.org/download/rule/slinky/slinky-v0.3.2/
Due to my limited upload speed, it'll be a half hour before the upload is 
done.

Be sure to verify the md5sums against the included MD5SUMS file.

> I still need some testers to use the previously released slinky-v0.3.1
> and give me some feedback on the rpm dependencies for everything other
> than the base and network options. Please?

I've done a little more testing myself, and the base, network, ssh, and 
sendmail package sets all install with no unsatisfied dependencies.

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