On Wed, 21 Aug 2002, S Mohan wrote:
> Solved the problem. Seems like my ide-probe-mod.o was corrupted. I
> wonder if it has something to do with downloading in windows and then
> transferring to the bering setup. Had gone thro' renaming ide-pr~1.o to
> ide-probe-mod.o. I've two suggestions and think this will be useful
> given my experiences.
>
> 1. Can leaf developers stick to 8.3 naming format?
No. This is not a "LEAF" issue ... it is a "Linux" issue... and to
arbitrarily go changing standard names would make the documentation issue
many times more difficult.
Besides... 8.3 is a pain.
> Alternatively, can
> associated drivers/files be compressed into a 8.3 name format file which
> can be decompressed on the bering machine. All lrp packages seem to
> follow the 8.3 standard.
Yes... that is the least "Linux-ish" part of LEAF, and is possible because
that view of LEAF has nothing to do with the internal operation once it
starts. It is an "archived" form of the system that is not really
functional until it gets unarchived, at which point the names can be up to
31 characters long.
> 2. Can a bootable ISO image of all LEAF distributions, modules,packages
> etc be made available so that one can prepare a boot media on a CD
> bootable machine without having to go on to the net everytime a module
> or package is needed.
There are several ISO images already, but they are each for a different
LEAF variant.
I cannot argue that having such a "super" CD wouldn't be nice, but it
doesn't really efficiently address the problem of "having to go to the net
everytime a module or package is needed." Downloading the modules tarfile
and the floppy is usually enough to get started, but the packages often
need additional documentation that may be found elsewhere on the web or in
Linux distributions, or in archived email list messages. In an ideal
world, such a CD would contain everything you need, but we aren't there
yet. The Bering docs tarball is also a very nice start on sufficient
documentation to get going without net access.
If you want to start compiling one, you may eventually come up with
what you want.
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