Thanks Christian. Maybe you could outline the basic steps that are going to be required to make myself an ISO that does not install EVMS. I am a newbie and have not built anything from source LOL. I do see this post "I've build a modified tsl-initrd package that does not require evms (iirc is tsl-initrd the only package that requires evms)"
Thanks! -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Christian Haugan Toldnes Sent: Tuesday, April 18, 2006 12:17 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: EVMS PF wrote: > What is the point/purpose/benefit of EVMS and why does TSL use it? For a > relative newbie like me it just makes things confusing. It was chosen by the installer development team. They thought, correctly or not, that evms was the most suitable choice for partitioning tool in a new installer. Most likely due to the fact that evms is the only tool that can do both partitioning, raid and lvm setup, all within the same framework. The installer developers that handled the evms module is, as far as I know, no longer a part of the Trustix team, so a more in-depth explanation is not viable. The only bad thing about evms, is the lack of testing of the evms integration in the installer and mkinitrd tool. Evms in itself still seems to be suitable for these tasks, however if implemented today the evms integration in the installer would be much more streamlined, as the current implementation is flawed due to licensing limitations. The installer was originally written to be licensed under a proprietary license, and could not have a normal API-integration with the open source tools it uses. The installer and mkinitrd sources are there, so feel free to hack out a solution to any problems... ;) kind regards c -- Christian Haugan Toldnes Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle _______________________________________________ tsl-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.trustix.org/mailman/listinfo/tsl-discuss _______________________________________________ tsl-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.trustix.org/mailman/listinfo/tsl-discuss
