preparing for initrd of cdlinux

2001-05-03 Thread zhaoway
the install task. ie. gtk, qt, mozilla, whatever, are all ready for use. no bothering on udebs etc. and by using cramfs, we have nearly 1.6G things extracted on each cd, as usual. (because cramfs sucks, that is one reason we cannot have eacy sync method for our development.) regards, zhaoway SDI

cdlinux progress report and roadmap

2001-04-28 Thread zhaoway
i cc'ed to debian-boot, 'cause I think there would be somebody interest in cdlinux too. in short, the goal of cdlinux is to be the most flashy cd installation method for debian gnu/linux. and a demo on live cd without installation. by cd installation mathod, i mean all of the flexibilities cd inst

debian-cd

2001-03-31 Thread zhaoway
[Please Cc: me all replies, I'm suffering a mail system disaster.] Hi, I'm doing a Debian GNU/Linux running right off a Live! CDROM. The project page is at: http://sourceforge.net/projects/cdlinux It looks like reinventing the wheel of DemoLinux, but I cannot seem to get DemoLinux up here. So

2.4.1: cramfs and initrd

2001-03-28 Thread zhaoway
Hi, Does anyone have this problem for kernel 2.4.1? When I compiled in cramfs, initrd cannot work. Kernel message screen just say: wrong magic <== spit out by cramfs(?) which shouldn't be there in the 1st place? Kernel Panic: couldn't find valid RAM disk image starting at ... Bu

cd install

2001-02-27 Thread zhaoway
someone has a grand picture of cd install there? thanks, -- ÕÔε -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: debian-installer and devfs

2001-02-27 Thread zhaoway
Glenn McGrath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Brian May wrote: > > > My understanding is that devfsd does three tasks (in default > > configuration): > > > > 3. loads kernel modules as required. > > > > 3 may or may not be important for boot disks, but don't overlook it... > > -- > > Any idea h

Re: cvs commit to debian-installer/tools/cdebconf/src/modules/frontend/corba by zw

2001-02-22 Thread zhaoway
"Randolph Chung" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > you may want to read the debconf spec :) Sure. ;) > string is one line, text is multiline. Yeah. I guessed. ;) But it makes less sense in a GUI editor because the editor will probably wanna take over the newline-care. ;) -- ÕÔε

corba cdebconf frontend

2001-02-21 Thread zhaoway
Hi, I'm doing a corba frontend for cdebconf. It's at the very, very begining. 0.0.0.0.1alpha0.0.0.1 I mean. ;-) Please, may I commit it to under d-i/tools/cdebconf/modules/frontend/corba ? Because, a) I hope to listen to others ideas with this, b) I'm also doing linux fs hack, so I'd like commit a

OT: install from a live! cdrom

2000-11-28 Thread zhaoway
There're already 2-3 versions of modified Debian system runs directly on CDROMs, i.e. Live! CDROMs. ;-) AFAIK, one is Gibraltar, a firewall project, a read-only system is interesting in this place; the other is DemoLinux, as the name suggests; the third maybe is from bootcd Debian package, which c