From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Neil Holmes" Subject: Elks Distribution Edition - 0.0.3 Date: Tue, 28 May 2002 11:40:04 +0100 Sender: linux-8086-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: Linux 8086 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