From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Javier Sedano Subject: [Fwd: Elks Distribution] Date: Fri, 24 May 2002 16:52:02 +0200 Sender: linux-8086-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <3CEE5392.751D7124@dit.upm.es> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="------------3B314A5ABDD4E8C70327451D" Return-path: List-Id: To: elks This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------3B314A5ABDD4E8C70327451D Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable --=20 Esta linea representa la importancia de una linea in=FAtil. -------- Javier Sedano Jarillo http://www.it.uc3m.es/~jsedano jsedano@dit.upm.es (*) jsedano@ieee.org --------------3B314A5ABDD4E8C70327451D Content-Type: message/rfc822 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Return-Path: Received: from mail.dit.upm.es (IDENT:root@mail.dit.upm.es [138.4.2.7]) by jungla.dit.upm.es (8.11.6/8.9.3) with ESMTP id g4OEmJZ15420 for ; Fri, 24 May 2002 16:48:19 +0200 Received: from relay.dit.upm.es (relay.dit.upm.es [138.4.2.15]) by mail.dit.upm.es (8.11.6/8.9.3) with ESMTP id g4OEmJa26591 for ; Fri, 24 May 2002 16:48:19 +0200 Received: from relay.upm.es (einstein.ccupm.upm.es [138.100.4.8]) by relay.dit.upm.es (8.11.6/8.9.3) with ESMTP id g4OEmJF20539 for ; Fri, 24 May 2002 16:48:19 +0200 Received: from mta06-svc.ntlworld.com (mta06-svc.ntlworld.com [62.253.162.46]) by relay.upm.es (8.11.2/8.11.1) with ESMTP id g4OEmIS29395 for ; Fri, 24 May 2002 16:48:18 +0200 (MEST) Received: from loftpc2 ([213.105.34.177]) by mta06-svc.ntlworld.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.27 201-229-121-127-20010626) with SMTP id <20020524143716.SGQD4119.mta06-svc.ntlworld.com@loftpc2> for ; Fri, 24 May 2002 15:37:16 +0100 From: "Neil Holmes" To: Subject: RE: Elks Distribution Date: Fri, 24 May 2002 15:37:52 +0100 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) Importance: Normal In-Reply-To: <3CEE4B39.3223FB2A@dit.upm.es> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 Thanks for your reply. I guess I will hang around for a few days on the fdisk/mkfs/mount issue. There are plenty of reasons that I should persist with 0.1.0 if I can get over this bump. Thanks for your encouragement on the distro I will carry on and am happy to share my work if anyone is interested. I will aim to produce a disk image file once I am over the 0.1.0 issue. As far as the installation to partition issue is concerned - theres not really a problem here while I am using fdisk in my script. At the moment I would have to accept a data entry on exit from fdisk to manually state which partition I am installing to. Eventually, I expect, I will need an interface into fdisk or something completely new ? Thanks for the advise on scripting. I can't see an immediate need for changing this anyway. It would just be an extra challenge for me further down the line. I'll keep it as it is just now. Thanks also for the tip on stable and development versions. I guess I am working towards what I would call my first stable version. That being a basic hard drive bootable installation. I will also take an input for partition to install to for now. That should solve your issue. Anything else you can suggest for my first version would be appreciated but I think this would be a start. My working title for my project is now "The Elks Distributions Edition". Happy for any other suggestions. btw - How will I go about publishing a disk image (with scripting) on the web page when I am ready ? Any way. Once again - many thanks for your encouragement. I will keep with it and keep the group posted. Neil -----Original Message----- From: jsedano@dit.upm.es [mailto:jsedano@dit.upm.es] Sent: 24 May 2002 15:16 To: Neil Holmes Cc: Linux 8086 Subject: Re: Elks Distribution 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 --------------3B314A5ABDD4E8C70327451D--