Text 6259, 82 rader
Skriven 2006-06-09 17:57:32 av Maurice Kinal (1:140/13.1)
   Kommentar till text 6257 av Paul Rogers (1:105/360.0)
Ärende: You gotta smile
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Hey Paul!

Jun 09 10:08 06, Paul Rogers wrote to Maurice Kinal:

 PR> Oh, I thought I'd simplify things with the rule, "be where
 PR> you're installing."

That could work too.

 PR> When it gets near the end, it runs the script I made to build
 PR> fstab, which asks, "What is the boot device?", "What is the root
 PR> device?", "What is the swap device?"  Those get saved in
 PR> /etc/sysconfig/hd, then back in the clone script, sourced, and
 PR> used for setting up lilo.conf.

Okay.  I'll see what happens when I try booting up the flashdisk on the new
system and hopefully I can use that to chroot into the barebones sata partition
and finish the bootstrapping.  If that works then I'll start taking notes how I
make that bootable from the flashdisk and use that as a basis for testing your
idea.  Offhand I think there will be something useful to gleam from this
experience.

 PR> Where the actual running rootfs is, well, so far it's been
 PR> Knoppix, the CD, I guess.  But later I plan to make up a version
 PR> of Trinux that will run from RAM.

Good plan.  I've been doing that with ttylinux right from the get-go and
honestly can say that is the best method.  It could stand some spiffing up
though in terms of helpful install/configuration scripts wrt on-the-fly
operations.  I can see this sort of thing coming in handy.

 PR> I need a few 2.4.21 modules
 PR> for that, so I'm planning on using my LFS base and one kernel
 PR> patch level.  My "enhancements" take it up to 2.4.31.  32 is
 PR> out.

I haven't been following 2.4 kernels since sometime last year.  All the systems
here are 2.6 based at the moment.

 MK>> to post I think that will clear it up ... or confuse us
 MK>> both even more.  ;-)

 PR> Yeah, I'm sure it will--it's too close not to.  I'm just twisted
 PR> around.  There's something I'm just don't "get".  These things
 PR> happen all the time.

I am in no rush.  How about you?  We'll get there, wherever 'there' really is.

 PR> Yeah, bootstrapping is a really interesting process.

Definetly resource hungry.  Well worth it in the end ... if it works that is.

 PR> if you've read any of Douglas Hofstadter's books, especially
 PR> "Metamagical Themas", but I recommend them all.  And you can
 PR> purchase them from Amazon through a link on my website, with my
 PR> great appreciation.  ;-)

We'll have to check that out soon.  I try and avoid buying things over the
internet if I can get whatever locally but I will check your site out soon.

 PR> I'm glad AMD/iNTEL are finally recognizing the value of full
 PR> virtualization and adding support to the CPU/chipset.  IBM has
 PR> been doing it for decades!

Right.  Same with Sun.

 PR> I ran 20 users & 3 CAD scopes on a
 PR> 4381 that probably wasn't as powerful as most PC's.  Not only
 PR> fully virtualized, but lots of "microcode assists" for OS
 PR> functions.  OK, it only had 4MB of RAM, and was paging 200
 PR> pages/sec, so it wasn't running WELL, but it ran.  We did a big
 PR> study and recommended the USAF max-out at 16MB, but they could
 PR> only afford 8MB.  IBM had told them 4MB was enough for the
 PR> workload (anything to make the sale).

Heh, heh.  Times have changed that is for sure.

Life is good,
Maurice

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