Hello Hubert,
On the past week I have to reinstall machines in our training center
(my new job). Well, all machines looks very common thus g4u is exactly
the tool what I need. Although I've heard a lot about g4u before, this
was my first time experience.
So, after preparing 16G partition on source machine I downloaded g4u
to perform PXE-powered setup. Unfortunately, some problems immediately
pursued me. There are.
1) g4u have no partitioning software (i.e. fdisk, please see also p.4
below), and upoading 200G images (please note that my partition size is
16G) for the whole disk looks like an overkill for me. Also, I'd like
to propose new {upload,slurp}layout programs, intended to deal with
partition layouts. 'fdisk -S' may be used in this case.
2) While trying to rebuild the g4u from sources to include fdisk I
found that G4U.MPACPI kernel doesn't compiles (you are already know
this problem :-) While talking about compilation - followed by
instructins on your site my workstation was gone to rebuild the whole
world. But building g4u from src/distrib/i386/g4u is not much complex
(if more complex at all), but saves a hell lot of time.
3) {slurp,upload}{disk,part} are almost the same program. As *nix user
I often incorrectly tried to preform partition operations with
slurpdisk utility. IMHO it would be better to merge *part into *disk
and add disk/partition autodetection (if disk/part contains a digit at
the end it's name, then 'd' should be appended).
4) Because of *disk/*part messing I've to reedit the command each time,
but shell was compiled without editline. Yes, I understand the problem
roots - in this case it will need three floppy disks instead of two. In
order to solve this I'd recommend to create two g4u variants - GENERIC
and TINY. For TINY you may drop lot of drivers and include smallest
tools; this may allow to fit g4u just one floppy. GENERIC, in contrast,
will fit three floppies, but will have all required tools and drivers.
5) While talking about g4u development: dot.profile contains ?()
function, which cannot be properly used because '?' is the shell
metacharacter. IMHO help() is completely enough.
Well, because most of above is criticall for my work I go for it, but
I'd like to see it included in further g4u releases.
Any opinion?
--
Yours,
Mishka.
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