Re: linuxboot build system

2009-07-08 Thread Juan Jose Pablos
Pierre Bourgin escribió: IMHO, it should be sufficient to define and describe precisely what is the official or reference platform for building Unattended: linux distribution flavor, exact versions of gcc and glibc of the host system, etc. Debian 5.0 (Lenny). I was happy with previous

Re: dosemu

2009-07-08 Thread Pierre Bourgin
Allan Lyons a écrit : In looking over some stuff, I couldn't come up with a reason why we still have dosemu. What does the dosemu code-path give us that the newer nt5x-install method does not? I know it was there historically, but what features does it have that are missing in the newer

Re: linuxboot build system

2009-07-08 Thread Juan Jose Pablos
Allan Lyons escribió: Hi, Our basic problem is that our tool chain is getting contaminated by the host build system. agree with it. But not many people get into build up the linuxboot, plus getting a recent kernel seem to resolve the issues for many of our users. Since we are effectly

Re: dosemu

2009-07-08 Thread insrc
On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 8:20 AM, Pierre Bourgin pierre.bour...@arteris.comwrote: Allan Lyons a écrit : In looking over some stuff, I couldn't come up with a reason why we still have dosemu. What does the dosemu code-path give us that the newer nt5x-install method does not? I know it was

Re: dosemu

2009-07-08 Thread Pierre Bourgin
insrc a écrit : On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 8:20 AM, Pierre Bourgin pierre.bour...@arteris.comwrote: Allan Lyons a écrit : In looking over some stuff, I couldn't come up with a reason why we still have dosemu. What does the dosemu code-path give us that the newer nt5x-install method does not?

Re: dosemu

2009-07-08 Thread Tim Bates
On 8/07/2009 5:00 PM, insrc wrote: Yep, i'm glad that dosemu is still there as i can't do unattended installation with nt5x-install method Same... In our case, the dosemu works on all our computers, but the nt5x method seems to fail on a few of the newer ones. It does it's thing, but once it

Re: dosemu

2009-07-08 Thread Juan Jose Pablos
Allan Lyons escribió: In looking over some stuff, I couldn't come up with a reason why we still have dosemu. What does the dosemu code-path give us that the newer nt5x-install method does not? I know it was there historically, but what features does it have that are missing in the newer

Re: dosemu

2009-07-08 Thread Allan Lyons
On Wed, Jul 08, 2009 at 08:21:44PM +1000, Tim Bates wrote: I have all ours set to create a full drive partition. The failures don't seem to have any pattern beyond being mostly the newer PCs. What type of computer are they? Allan.

Re: linuxboot build system

2009-07-08 Thread Nils Olav Fossum
Tirsdag 7. juli 2009, skrev Allan Lyons: Our basic problem is that our tool chain is getting contaminated by the host build system. This is a major pain. Even if we all use debian stable it will be differences in the compiled product. There are roughly two parts to Unattended. One part is

Re: dosemu

2009-07-08 Thread Nils Olav Fossum
Onsdag 8. juli 2009, skrev Allan Lyons: In looking over some stuff, I couldn't come up with a reason why we still have dosemu. What does the dosemu code-path give us that the newer nt5x-install method does not? I know it was there historically, but what features does it have that are missing

Re: linuxboot build system

2009-07-08 Thread Joseph Rawson
On Tuesday 07 July 2009 19:39:08 Juan Jose Pablos wrote: Pierre Bourgin escribió: IMHO, it should be sufficient to define and describe precisely what is the official or reference platform for building Unattended: linux distribution flavor, exact versions of gcc and glibc of the host system,

Re: dosemu

2009-07-08 Thread Mario Gzuk
Well, I cant give you any first hand reasons as I have not used dosemu since I posted the very first stumbling nt5x-install patches here. To me it seems like the trouble people have with nt5x-install is the old bios geometry and limitations in FAT. When we throw shaky microsoft and

Re: dosemu

2009-07-08 Thread Tim Bates
Allan Lyons wrote: On Wed, Jul 08, 2009 at 08:21:44PM +1000, Tim Bates wrote: I have all ours set to create a full drive partition. The failures don't seem to have any pattern beyond being mostly the newer PCs. What type of computer are they? Random Lenovo desktops ranging from 4