Jacques, Eric:

Every now and then, the 255 character limit of the kernel comes up. Checking out the 
documentation, the description
of lrpkg.cfg seems only to appear in the "boot from CDROM" section, a section that 
many people won't read as it
doesn't apply to them. PLUS it implies that the 255 character limit is an isolinux.cfg 
limitation, which isn't
true, it's a kernel limitation (AFAIK)

I suggest adding a reference to lrpkg.cfg to section 6.2 "Edit the syslinux.cfg file" 
of the installation guide
along the lines of:

<PROPOSED CHANGE to Bering installation guide section 6.2>

You can also write the list of packages to a file with the name "lrpkg.cfg" in the 
floppy root, i.e. in the same
directory as syslinux.cfg. If that file is present, the packages listed in the file 
will be loaded instead of those
listed in the LRP= list.

Thus you get the same effect as in the default syslinux.cfg file by writing

display syslinux.dpy
timeout 0
default linux initrd=initrd.lrp init=/linuxrc rw root=/dev/ram0 \
   boot=/dev/fd0u1680:msdos PKGPATH=/dev/fd0u1680

to syslinux.cfg and

root,etc,local,modules,iptables,pump,keyboard,shorwall,ulogd,dnscache,weblet

To lrpkg.cfg. This can help you get around the 255 character limit of the kernel 
command line. For a complete
description of lrpkg.cfg and its syntax, see <link = /bubooting.html#id2892001> 
section 11.5 of the user's guide

</PROPOSED CHANGE>

- Alex



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