On Tue, 17 Apr 2001, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > On Tue, Apr 17, 2001 at 06:36:41PM +1000, Glenn McGrath wrote: > > Obvious differences that will arise for core installer components are > > The core installer components will need to understand settrans to do > > things like mount, ifconfig. I was thinking of maybe putting a wrapper > > around settrans to enable consistent handling.... not sure about this > > idea though. > > There already is a wrapper for mount. We can stick with something compatible > or implement lacking features in the Hurd mount. > > > ifconfig we have, but settings using it are not permanent, so we still want > to do the real settrans for pfinet. > > But that is all very simple. > > > Size may be more of an issue under the Hurd as well, for linux will are > > aiming to get the kernel and core components onto 1 floppy. uClibc helps > > a lot under linux, it saves a few hunder kB compared to glibc. > > We will need two disks, one boot, one root disk (kernel and root fs on > different floppy images). > > There is another issue. Some udebs depend on the linux framebuffer device to > build. I don't know how much of this is really used (optionally I hope). If > you can add protections for that code to only build on linux, this would be > great.
If the installer basically remains the same it will be a matter of fiddling to update. All the floppy flavours are produced. If the installation scheme changes radically then it will be a different story. Phil. - Philip Charles; 39a Paterson St., Dunedin, New Zealand; +64 3 4882818 Mobile 025 267 9420. I sell GNU/Linux CDs. See http://www.copyleft.co.nz [EMAIL PROTECTED] - preferred. [EMAIL PROTECTED]
