So have SuSe and Mandrake solved the CDROM boot problem? I am referring to Dave Douthitt's "Developing for LRP" document and the section "Making a Bootable LRP CDROM" > Important Considerations > There are many things to consider in creating a bootable CDROM using > LRP. > Packages cannot be loaded from the boot medium, since the boot medium is > a floppy disk image artificially loaded into memory via PC BIOS INT 13. > Only syslinux, the Linux kernel, and root.lrp (the root filesystem > loaded by the Linux kernel) are available. > Packages might be stored on the CDROM in a directory. It must be > determined if the LRP variant used supports access to packages in > directories. > The configuration files on the boot disk are fixed and unchangeable. To > permit changeable configurations, access to a real floppy is required. > These considerations must be taken into account when creating a bootable > CDROM. I was thinking about this issue last week, when I was using Red Hat's anaconda kick start program. It all starts with syslinux and boots into ram. If at the syslinux LINUX prompt you type in "linux ks=floppy", anaconda is launched with a preprogrammed set of install instructions. The CDROM is still available to the linux system controling the Red Hat install. Or are there many issues that I just don't understand yet about the El Torrito problem and LEAF? Moreover, could Red Hat's Anaconda or SuSe's Alice be used as a way to automate a LEAF configurations? Anaconda allows a %post section to perform bash or perl scripting to configuration that the rest of the installer does not take care of. I know Alice exists, but have not explored it yet. Larry Platzek wrote: > Just thought others might like to know and look for ideas. > > http://www.suse.com/us/suse/news/PressReleases/Firewall.html > > retail looks like $649. US dollars. > > Larry Platzek [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dave Douthitt wrote: > > Since SuSE was mentioned.... > > Mandrake has had one for a few weeks or more now; go to > http://www.linux-mandrake.com ...when it works. _______________________________________________ Leaf-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-devel
