The kernel on this image dies on my Athlon 750 box with a kernel panic when
it mounts root, original Eigerstein2BETA runs fine.

Currently as I type this email ive got the updated image running on my pppoe
DSL line (AMD586-133,64MB Ram)
Now I just need to sit down and shrink the pppoe package ;-)

-Kenneth Hadley



----- Original Message -----
From: "Ewald Wasscher" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Sunday, May 20, 2001 9:56 AM
Subject: [Leaf-devel] Eigerstein?BETA pre-release


> 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
>
>


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----


> 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
>



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