I'm of the mindset that the way the LEAF CD-image is presently
constructed is unnecessarily obtuse.
Regarding BuC 2.4.1 in particular (though I recall that recent versions
of BuC-from-CD all work this way):
The LEAF ISO is bootable and this is effected via a floppydisk image
that is stored on the CD (bootdisk.ima). This virtual diskette then
boots the LEAF system (curiously, identical copies of syslinux.cfg and
LEAF.cfg exist on the floppy image as well as on the CD - which copy
does one adjust to effect a change?!?!)
I've been using a CD/floppy LEAF config for a few years now and this is
how I have mine setup.
The CD boots, and first invokes Bootable CD Wizard v1.50Z - Freeware
Multiple-Image Bootable CD Manager [ http://bootcd.narod.ru/bcdw_e.htm
]. This is just a boot manager. By timeout default, this BCDW then
chains to isolinux.bin which loads the LEAF system from CD ( physical
floppy diskette). My 'static' LRP packages are on the CD and I make
'partial' backups to the floppy.
Instead of timing-out to the LEAF bootup, I can also elect to have the
system boot a DOS diskette, for e.g. if I want to partition a USB/CF
device, install syslinux on a H/D, configure ISA network adapters with
DOS-based utils, etc. (forgive me but I 'grew up' on DOS so I'm most
efficient doing things in that environment.)
When booting LEAF I have on the root of the CD isolinux.cfg and on the
floppy, I have the LEAF.cfg. Once I have performed any upgrade to a
newer version of LEAF (for which I need to do some changes to files that
are not stored as part of partial backups, so I do a full backup to
floppy then move the biggie LRP file to the CD) I need to only make
changes to files that are stored on floppy.
A very sweet setup, IMO.
So my RFE here would be: would the powers-that-be wish to adjust the
boot method of the CD so as to obviate the need for a bootable floppy
image to exist on the CD? IMO this would reduce confusion about how
things chain to one another in the boot sequence, and perhaps be a more
easy installation for new users (e.g. no need to rebuild bootdisk.ima to
effect changes, and then burn a new CD)?
I'm in the process of creating a FreeDOS bootable diskette image to
provide unencumbered (re licencing), distributable DOS image that can be
used in conjunction with the isolinux-booting LEAF CD.
I'm also happy to provide my mkisofs 'recipe' since the danged thing
took some time to get working correctly.
Anyone interested? Powers-that-be?
(FWIW BCDW is not GPL'd but /is/ freeware that has no
licencing/distribution encumbrances that I can ascertain.)
scott; canada
ermo wrote:
Hi,
I'm using BuC 2.4.1, booting from CD and reading my configuration from
floppy. I figured that, since all modules are on the CD, I wouldn't
need to load a separate modules.lrp from floppy. But as BuC doesn't use
modprobe(modutils?), it gets kinda hairy.
I finally figured out what the somewhat terse comments in /etc/modules
mean, but I think it might be a good idea if at least the cd
version of BuC gets the following additions to /etc/modules in the
standard modules.lrp (hopefully I got most of them right):
# (snip beginning of /etc/modules)
# Want to load modules from the official Bering uClibc cd image? Use:
# ! mount iso9660 /dev/cdrom
# and uncomment the (relevant) ! dir ... lines below
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