On 3/12/02 at 9:15 AM, Charles Steinkuehler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> And a big disadvantage...it's a lot for someone to type > in, creating even more questions along the lines of "did > they type in the script correctly?". I was speaking from the standpoint of finally getting a script written and installed in a system - or in a package - not one to type in. There's been the barebones of a "script" (or set of diagnostics) to type in and people never seem to do it. > Create a diagnostic LRP package. This would have a script > similar to David's that dumps standard info to a file, > probably mounting the floppy and everything in the process > (we can have a fairly complex script, if folks arn't > typing it in by hand). Mounting a floppy and putting the data on it wouldn't be hard. I still prefer to build the script directly into the distribution, but a package would work. However, non-Oxygen distributions still require modification of syslinux.cfg or lrpkg.cfg before a package will load. > Create a diagnostic disk image. The idea here would be to > put everything needed onto a disk image (which presumably > even the greenest user can deal with, or they wouldn't be > having configuration problems :-). There would be a > fairly simple set of commands the user would run to mount > the disk and run the diagnostic script...everything else > would be automatic. I could see something like this: a user downloads the diagnostics disk image (and writes it to disk), boots with their own original boot image, then loads the disk by using a diagnostics selection from the main menu. The system automatically asks for the diagnostics image, and all packages are loaded (without any special configuration changes or adding packages). Then the data is gathered, stored on disk, and perhaps mailed (upon the user's confirmation). Oxygen has everything to do this already except an expanded package format to execute a script after loading the package... perhaps a startup script... -- David Douthitt UNIX Systems Administrator HP-UX, Unixware, Linux [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Leaf-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-devel
