Re: Elks Distribution

[Javier Sedano <jsedano@dit.upm.es>]

neil.holmes@zoom.co.uk wrote:
> 
> 1. To have part of the install set be run on linux to allow
> production of the required kernel.
> 2. To issue a distribution set that caters for every single
> possible root location.
> 

        Another solution: give a disk image boot+root (or maybe 2, if
360k are
used) which boots, fdisks, mkfss and so on. In a different disk (because
I am pretty sure that it won't fit in 720k with all the other stuff),
provide 4 kernels, one for each of the 4 possible installation
(/dev/bda[1..4]). And somewhere in the installation process, copy the
correct kernel to the HD and use bootkit to select it.

        Anywau, you need to do something similar, right? I mean... the
kernel
in the boot floppy must have /dev/fd0 as root device, mustn't it?

> Neither of those are really in the spirit of the goal of the
> project so I have a brick wall looming...... Unless the kernel
> experts can help ?
> 

        That would be the perfect solution, but may be hard to code...




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