From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Neil Holmes" Subject: Elks Distribution Date: Tue, 28 May 2002 22:01:53 +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 had a first bash at 360k and 1.2M versions of the Distribution Edition. Both of which are very open to error as I have no way of actually testing them ! If anyone is able to have a look I would be very greatful for some feedback. These particular versions will require (if they work at all) that you boot from a pre 0.1.0 boot disk for your particular specification. Then when root disk is requested, put in the new root image. Hopefully the install will then proceed as the instructions describe. Just to re-iterate. The development version (0.0.4 Candidate) can be found at the EDE web site download area :- http://homepage.ntlworld.com/neiluk/elks-distro/ It contains the following :- - 1.44Mb floppy single disk install (Boots 0.0.82 kernel but installs 0.1.0 to hard drive) - Tidied up install messages - No install login requirement I am not happy with this. I have had to produce a version of getty, for the install disk only, that doesn't prompt for a login. I couldn't see any other way ? - A new "isreboot" command for the install only. Its a copy of the standard reboot command but with "remove floppy" messages included. - The new root disk images described at the head of this email. IMPORTANT NOTE : THIS VERSION INSTALLS ONLY TO /dev/bda1 AND DOES NOT HANDLE MULTI-BOOT Please have a look and email me with any comments/ findings. Have fun. Thanks Neil