Hello all, With help and approval from Charles Steinkuehler I have made an updated version of Eigerstein2BETA. The goal was not to deviate too much from the original Eigerstein2BETA. All binaries have been upgraded to the last stable version. Other major changes are: - replaced ae with e3 as the default editor. - moved ae, ncurses and setserial to seperate packages - introduced a modified lrcfg.back.script that uses busybox tar A disk image (1743KB) and packages are available for testing here: http://leaf.sourceforge.net/devel/ewaldw/Eigerstein2BETA/20010520/ On the todo list for the final release are: - update sh-httpd in the weblet package - produce some updated kernels If some people could test this pre-release and provide me with merciless feedback I would be grateful. The changelog is attached. Greetings, Ewald Wasscher
Changelog for Eigerstein2BETA_test_20010520 These binaries were updated, added or removed: - updated ash to version 0.3.7 - updated busybox to version 0.51 - updated tinylogin to version 0.80 - updated glibc libraries in /lib to the latest debian slink version, recompiled with linux 2.2.15 kernel headers. - updated syslogd & klogd to the latest debian slink version - updated cron to debian 3.0pl1-66, recompiled without PAM - updated icmpinfo to version 1.11 - updated traceroute to version 1.4a12 - updated iproute to the latest debian version - updated netstat to net-tools version 1.60 - updated setserial to version 2.17 - upgraded hwclock,fdformat to util-linux-2.11b - updated init,start-stop-daemon,halt,killall5,runlevel, shutdown to sysvinit version 2.78 - upgraded POSIXness to the multi-file version from LRP 2.9.8 - upgraded lrcfg to the version from LRP 2.9.8 - upgraded ipchains to version 1.3.10 - upgraded ncurses to a full version 4.2 - upgraded dnscache to version 1.05 - upgraded dhcpd & dhclient to version 2.0pl5 - the following binaries were removed: ctar, dnsdomainname (use hostname -d instead),/lib/libnss_db* (these were unused) - replaced the following commands with their busybox counterpart: hostname,ping,ps,stty,killall,logger,rdate,watchdog,insmod,rmmod - replaced /sbin/getty with tinylogin getty - the following binaries were moved to a seperate package: ae,ncurses,setserial - added e3.lrp as the default editor - introduced a modified version of Eric Wolzak's lrcfg.back.script that works with busybox tar instead of ctar The following changes were made to scripts: - some minor tweaks of linuxrc to make it work with the new busybox replace untar with "busybox tar -x" replace gunzip with zcat - modified /etc/init.d/network line 86: added \ as the new ash expects "&&" on the same line as the preceding command. - added the noauto option to the entry for / in /etc/fstab to get rid of the error when /etc/init.d/mountall.sh tries to mount / which is already mounted rw - renamed ln to busybox, and modified linuxrc accordingly - slightly modified /etc/init.d/network to change the format /etc/hostname is written in. busybox hostname does NOT ignore comments placed before the hostname, so we put the comment at the end. - adjusted root.list so that the initrd will be uncompressed properly after being backed up with the new lrcfg.back.script. the trick is to have no leading ./ in front of the filenames. - added an option to the lrcfg menu for backing up the boot floppy with backupdisk
