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From: "Neil Holmes" <neil.holmes@zoom.co.uk>
To: Linux 8086 <linux-8086@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Elks Distribution Edition - 0.0.3
Date: Tue, 28 May 2002 11:40:04 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <DDENIOHFNLNMCGGDFDPCGEOOCDAA.neil.holmes@zoom.co.uk> (raw)

I have put up version 0.0.3 which addresses (hopefully finally for now) the
device creation issues using the MAKEDEV script from the 0.1.0 kernel
root/boot disk.

I have also done a little bit of tidying up on the messages displayed during
the install.

For disk one, being as I intend to dump it from the distribution in due
course, it will not really change at all on any version. I have changed some
of the text but functionally it is exactly the same as in all previous
releases so you can save yourselves a couple of minutes and not produce a
new disk 1 ! Just use the one you have already.

Michael McConnell has found that their seems to be a problem in using the
Distribution Edition in Bochs. I have never used Bochs before and am
currently trying to set up Bochs 1.4 to look into this. I am assuming that
the problem is likely to relate to the bootloader, that I am currently
using, in some way being as on all other platforms that I have tried thus
far (with a 1.44 Mb floppy drive), I have had no problems.

Assuming nothing drastic comes up, I will leave 0.0.3 as the latest version
for a little while now.

My desirables for the next release include :-

- A single floppy disk
- No requirement to "login" to start the install
- A tidier completion of the script
	(try taking the floppy out before you hit return for reboot if you don't
know what I mean here !!!)
- Different Disk Image Formats !!!

And if I can

- Begin to introduce a method for package installation

Have Fun

Neil





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