From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Javier Sedano Subject: Re: Elks Distribution Date: Fri, 24 May 2002 16:16:27 +0200 Sender: linux-8086-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <3CEE4B39.3223FB2A@dit.upm.es> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: Neil Holmes Cc: Linux 8086 Neil Holmes wrote: > > Are there any fixes around for this that I may be missing ? > There has been a discussion about it in the last days, so I suppose they are working on it. > > I have now moved onto looking for some sort of a challenge for myself that I > may be able to contribute to the project. My C skills are not to the > standard of the majority of the contributors here. Hence I am not so > comfortable at low levels. I noticed, though, in the documentation that > Question 1.3 says "Are there any ready-to-run distributions of ELKS". The > answer says no and goes on to invite interest to build something. Is this > still the case ? Are there no distributions ? > As far as I know, nobody is working on it, so your work will be appreciated. > During the course of my experimenting I have been playing with scripts that > install ELKS to the hard drive from a root and boot floppy. I guess this is > the start of a distribution ? My current script will only run, so far, into > /dev/bda1. It was devised as a way to save me some time really. > On my side, it is a danger, since I have MSDOS-win30 in bda1 and Minix in bda2, so I need to change to bda3 > I am currently trying to persuade my script to setup the hard drive to boot. > I did it manually so I expect I will soon have it working from my install > routine too. In due course I may well re-write the script in, perhaps C ? I wouldn't do so. Scripts are slower, and sometimes larger, but much easier to modify (just mount the floppy under UNIX/Linux and edit it). I would advice scripts, if I were asked. > I > would also like to make the Install Floppy Disk be for a 0.1.0 system but > the problems that I outlined at the head of this message prevent that just > now. > One hint: keep two distribution. A stable, with that you know that (almost) works. And publish it in the web page. And keep working on other, published here (and as alpha/beta in the web, if you want), until it reaches stable state. > Is what I have been up to of interest. Maybe good for less technical people > who want a first look at Elks ? > I think so. -- El trabajo en equipo es esencial, te permite echarle la culpa a otro. -------- Javier Sedano Jarillo http://www.it.uc3m.es/~jsedano jsedano@dit.upm.es (*) jsedano@ieee.org