On Wed, 6 Feb 2002, Darrell May wrote:
> If we take axonlinux as a project that has travelled this path already, > they built a new distro iso. To be very brief.... they essentially took a > disto (SGI XFS) and added all the e-smith rpms that the distro did not > include by default. After that you dive under the hood and test what works, > what doesn't work, modify the templates as appropriate, rebuild rpms that > need updating, add new rpms, bundle and build into a new iso... and > axonlinux was born. > > Skill level required to do the above is high but anyone with time and > resources may challenge this. > > Unfortunately I am deeply involed in other major projects at the moment. If > someone else would lead this project I will offer my assistance to get you > going. I followed axonlinux and have enough knoweldge myself to be at least > a resource that might know an answer or two ;-> > > As time permits and as my schedule clears, I'll be happy to join in a more > fuller capacity. So you are suggesting a project fork. That's a lot of work, and fragments the community. So you should have very good justification for proposing is. Would it not be better to develop a HOWTO for a 2.4 kernel upgrade (not difficult) and for an ext3 file system conversion (more difficult, but quite doable)? -- Charlie Brady [EMAIL PROTECTED] Lead Product Developer Network Server Solutions Group http://www.e-smith.com/ Mitel Networks Corporation http://www.mitel.com/ Phone: +1 (613) 368 4376 or 564 8000 Fax: +1 (613) 564 7739 -- Please report bugs to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] (only) to discuss security issues Support for registered customers and partners to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives by mail and http://www.mail-archive.com/devinfo%40lists.e-smith.org
