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Skriven 2006-12-17 18:43:00 av Maurice Kinal
     Kommentar till en text av Paul Rogers
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Hey Paul!

Dec 17 10:16 06, Paul Rogers wrote to Maurice Kinal:

 PR>> This /boot directory is externalized on the floppy for access from
 PR>> some "host" system like DOS/Windows.
 MK>> You mean like a virtual system?

 PR> No.  Even though I'm doing this LFS stuff for my own use, I want
 PR> it to all work like it was a professional distro.

Okay.  Myself I am not that far along and am happy with chrootable development
partitions or loop mounted initrd's until I am happy with the results.  Then I
just archive the entire thing and call it a keeper.  :-)

Not very professional but it has worked out great for me and I am the only one
using them so why jump through additional hoops?

 PR> That's the
 PR> right standard.

Probably.  Given that I am not a distribution it isn't an issue with me.

 PR> experience today's Gen-Y'ers can't even imagine.  I don't mind
 PR> retracing the steps Linux distros made years ago, not at all!

Same here except that I've been doing that for so long now I've trimmed off
quite a bit of the 'fat' which is usally packagers and the such.

 MK>> Excellent.  Are they, or could they be, configured on the fly (eg
 MK>> change of  address if and when needed)

 PR> At that point you're running in an init startup script.  Does
 PR> that answer your question?  ;-)

Okay.  Myself I don't bother in the initrd's since depending on the target
machine all that is subject to change until I commit something to that target,
which may or may not happen.  For instance the usb flash disk boot may boot on
a wide variety of capable machines and they are likely different as to
addressing and the such as well as have multiple networking interfaces on
multiple networks, including wireless these days which we don't have a dhcp
server for and aren't really interested in setting up.  This way someone trying
to hack in would need to know how we do things beforehand and it is unlikely
that person could figure it out without a ton of head banging.  :-)

Life is good,
Maurice

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