Re: [leaf-devel] DocBook auto-build update

2003-06-19 Thread Mike Noyes
On Thu, 2003-06-19 at 17:57, Lynn Avants wrote: > On Thursday 19 June 2003 05:01 pm, Mike Noyes wrote: > > That is/was the plan. The sitedocs project is working toward that goal, > > but there are problems. I'm evaluating other options for our FAQs > > (wiki/faq phpwebsite module). > > I can't say

Re: [leaf-devel] Re: remote Package install

2003-06-19 Thread Lynn Avants
On Thursday 19 June 2003 05:43 pm, Erich Titl wrote: [...] > I will, I am just doubtful on the pxeboot side when it comes to PCMCIA > NIC's, here is a link I found for etherboot > > http://etherboot.sourceforge.net/doc/html/devman-6.html > > I also looked at Argons site but there too, support for a

Re: [leaf-devel] DocBook auto-build update

2003-06-19 Thread Lynn Avants
On Thursday 19 June 2003 05:01 pm, Mike Noyes wrote: > On Thu, 2003-06-19 at 14:45, Lynn Avants wrote: > > Could we also convert the FAQ's to docbook-xml and build them into the > > docmanager??? This would likely be much easier to update/validate than > > doing them by hand... > > Lynn, > That

[leaf-devel] Re: remote Package install

2003-06-19 Thread Erich Titl
Lynn Lynn Avants wrote the following at 22:30 19.06.2003: On Thursday 19 June 2003 02:27 pm, Erich Titl wrote: [...] > This would IMHO not touch much in the existing init set up except of course > the system would run in another init level. No, no I didn't mean switch init systems, it was a ge

Re: [leaf-devel] DocBook auto-build update

2003-06-19 Thread Mike Noyes
On Thu, 2003-06-19 at 14:45, Lynn Avants wrote: > Could we also convert the FAQ's to docbook-xml and build them into the > docmanager??? This would likely be much easier to update/validate than > doing them by hand... Lynn, That is/was the plan. The sitedocs project is working toward that goa

Re: [leaf-devel] DocBook auto-build update

2003-06-19 Thread Lynn Avants
On Thursday 19 June 2003 04:45 pm, Mike Noyes wrote: > Erich, > Not yet. It contains most of the Bering Guides, and the Oxygen > Developer's Guide. I'm converting the Dachstein Installation Guide, and > I may do the others (install-eigerstein, install-lrp) also. Mike, Could we also convert the FAQ

Re: [leaf-devel] DocBook auto-build update

2003-06-19 Thread Mike Noyes
On Thu, 2003-06-19 at 12:06, Erich Titl wrote: > Mike Noyes wrote the following at 14:16 19.06.2003: > >Did you like the LEAF Guide Collection? It's just a DocBook DOCTYPE set. > > I just had a short glimpse, it is a great doc, somehow a LEAF encyclopedia. > Does it hold all the DocBook info ther

Re: [leaf-devel] remote package install

2003-06-19 Thread Erich Titl
Jacques I believe this could be done with etherboot too, but would it cover PCMCIA cards? I would not suggest to rewrite linuxrc. thanks Erich Jacques Nilo wrote the following at 22:28 19.06.2003: Apart from rewriting the /linuxrc script (already fairly messy) a simple solution for people withou

Re: [leaf-devel] remote package install

2003-06-19 Thread Jacques Nilo
Apart from rewriting the /linuxrc script (already fairly messy) a simple solution for people without PXE NIC's or non compatible BIOS would be to use a PXE stacks on a floppy. One is freely available at: http://www.argontechnology.ca/rbfg/index.shtml I have not tested that but it should work with

[leaf-devel] remote package install - from leaf-users list

2003-06-19 Thread Steve Wright
Gurus, I have a requirement for remote configuration, so I have been working on the issue. I have a couple of shell scripts so far. Most of my work has been done for the core system - the machine that has authority over the routers. The first script uploads ssh keys so the core does not furth

Re: [leaf-devel] DocBook auto-build update

2003-06-19 Thread Erich Titl
Mike Mike Noyes wrote the following at 14:16 19.06.2003: On Thu, 2003-06-19 at 01:55, Erich Titl wrote: > >I may have gone overboard. I'm starting to combine all of our guides > >into a single master collection. I'm going to do something similar with > >our howtos tomorrow. > > Going overboard at

Re: [leaf-devel] Booting and installing Bering using PXE

2003-06-19 Thread Lynn Avants
On Thursday 19 June 2003 07:30 am, Erich Titl wrote: > Jorn > > I have some halfbred ideas how I would go about it. I wanted to tackle this > for a long time, but alas, my gateway runs and I somehow hoped someone else > would implement it without breaking the init stuff. My idea was to run the > pa

[leaf-devel] FW: Enhanced tool

2003-06-19 Thread S Mohan
Came across this. Thought it would be useful for making LEAF more usable. Can someone compile and contribute this? Both mii-tool _and_ ethtool. It seems mii-tool is the old one, and works for some ethernet cards. ethtool is newer (and supposedly better), and works for some ethernet cards. Some c

[leaf-devel] Re: [off-list] DocBook auto-build update

2003-06-19 Thread Charles Steinkuehler
Mike Noyes wrote: On Thu, 2003-06-19 at 07:45, Charles Steinkuehler wrote: Mike Noyes wrote: > Everyone, > I may have gone overboard. I'm starting to combine all of our guides > into a single master collection. I'm going to do something similar with > our howtos tomorrow. > > LEAF Guide Collec

[leaf-devel] remote package install

2003-06-19 Thread Mike Noyes
On Thu, 2003-06-19 at 01:52, Erich Titl wrote: > I was wondering if we could do some kind of hybrid set up which would fetch > packages from a server (whatever method) after booting from floppy. I > believe it should be possible to start a minimal LEAF installation, get up > the NIC's and then l

Re: [leaf-devel] DocBook auto-build update

2003-06-19 Thread Mike Noyes
On Thu, 2003-06-19 at 08:42, Charles Steinkuehler wrote: > Mike Noyes wrote: > > Everyone, > > I may have gone overboard. I'm starting to combine all of our guides > > into a single master collection. I'm going to do something similar with > > our howtos tomorrow. > > > > LEAF Guide Collection

Re: [leaf-devel] DocBook auto-build update

2003-06-19 Thread Charles Steinkuehler
Mike Noyes wrote: Everyone, I may have gone overboard. I'm starting to combine all of our guides into a single master collection. I'm going to do something similar with our howtos tomorrow. LEAF Guide Collection http://leaf-project.org/doc/guide/ As long as the guides could be easily export

Re: [leaf-devel] DocBook auto-build update

2003-06-19 Thread Mike Noyes
On Thu, 2003-06-19 at 01:55, Erich Titl wrote: > >I may have gone overboard. I'm starting to combine all of our guides > >into a single master collection. I'm going to do something similar with > >our howtos tomorrow. > > Going overboard at daytime is roughly 50% survival chance, at night it is >

Re: [leaf-devel] DocBook auto-build update

2003-06-19 Thread Erich Titl
Mike At 15:45 18.06.2003 -0700, you wrote: Everyone, I may have gone overboard. I'm starting to combine all of our guides into a single master collection. I'm going to do something similar with our howtos tomorrow. Going overboard at daytime is roughly 50% survival chance, at night it is close to