installer : few questions

Michal Moskal malekith w pld.org.pl
Wto, 2 Sty 2001, 16:24:54 CET


Hey,

I just updated prowizorka2: net/modules config and
a lot more.

I have few questions about installer, how to write
few things etc...

1. does /boot has to be on ext2 for lilo? could it be 
   on reiser, ext3? (are we going to support it (ext3)?)

2. is order in /etc/fstab important (e.g. first /var then 
   /var/spool)?
   
3. what about packages, *-pkg.tgz files? where are they going
   to be? and when we're installing from cdrom (our iso)
   (i think this should be the easiest case, esp. for beginners,
   or maybe PLD should not be used by beginners, at this point?)
   where are they? i suggest sth about this:
   
   cdrom/
     PLD/ ??? PLD-current/ ??? PLD/$arch/ ???
        inst/
          *-pkg.tgz
          *-mod.tgz
          tocfile*
        RPMS/
          *.rpm

   unless sth else is already set up?
   what about structure on ftp and mirrors, I would see same directory
   structure on all mirrors and ftp.pld.org.pl, sth like:
   .../PLD-current/   -> (ln -s) PLD-1.0
       alpha/
       i386/
       i586/
       i686/
       sparc/
       whatever/
          inst/
             *-pkg.tgz
             *-mod.tgz
             tocfile*
          RPMS/
            *.rpm
   well, this is sth similar to current state.

   in addition to all current *-pkg.tgz i would see ext2-pkg, just
   for completness (and maybe ext3), in my installer it's fully
   automatic, to load pkg so there should be no problem. Or maybe
   put both reiser and ext2 in base, so for simpliest case (cdrom)
   there would be no pkgs needed?

4. some explonatory messages needs to be written, esp. for 
   partitioning disk, cfdisk is easy to run, but beginner
   needs to be told to make for ex. / and swap, how much space
   he needs and so on...

5. network config should now work. are we going to support
   ipv6 on bootdisk?


Automatesz is ok!

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                             Michał Moskal <malekith w pld.org.pl>

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