-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Keld J�rn Simonsen wrote: > On Fri, Sep 26, 2003 at 03:52:18PM +0200, Buchan Milne wrote: >>Keld J�rn Simonsen wrote: >> >>>My 2 �re for mdk 10:
>>>installing out of a disk .img with all boot facilities as a standard >>>install way. >> >>Can you explain this one more? > > > This was already available at some time in one or more of the betas, in > alt0 and alt1 directories. > > I also wrote a little on my ideas earlier. But my idea is to streamline > it as a mainstream way of installing cooker or the download version of > Mandrake. This as installing from disk is faster in total than booting > off a diskette or a cdrom, which media both are slower than disk, and > requires that you find a media to burn or write on, and then at least > compared to a 1,44 MB diskette, you may have more things in a disk-based > boot.img. In fact you may have all drivers in the diskboot.img and all > logics on whether to boot from disk, ftp, http, ntp etc. Furthermore > quite some laptops today come without a diskette station, so it may > be hard to do an install from those machines OK, you mean just burining isolinux with alt0 only onto a CD? Of course, you can also just dump the files from alt0 in your lilo.conf, and boot it (less work than writing a CD). But maybe someone can make an ISO image? >>>harmonization of drakx and mcc - using the same wizards etc. >> >>AFAIK this is mostly done. > > > Sounds good. I just notice that time setup miss ntp setup. > I havent been thru all of drakx and mcc to check for missing features. I see there is a drakwizard which seems to do this? Of course, I would prefer to see ntp support location of time servers via dhcp, dns or LDAP ... Regards, Buchan - -- |--------------Another happy Mandrake Club member--------------| Buchan Milne Mechanical Engineer, Network Manager Cellphone * Work +27 82 472 2231 * +27 21 8828820x202 Stellenbosch Automotive Engineering http://www.cae.co.za GPG Key http://ranger.dnsalias.com/bgmilne.asc 1024D/60D204A7 2919 E232 5610 A038 87B1 72D6 AC92 BA50 60D2 04A7 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQE/dI4DrJK6UGDSBKcRAnR2AKCEH9YlvLn315dA1a66pJWe3Mi41wCfeBrC w4B+qd4C8E2plA/W/ofnHEQ= =kJIl -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ***************************************************************** Please click on http://www.cae.co.za/disclaimer.htm to read our e-mail disclaimer or send an e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] for a copy. *****************************************************************
