I spent the better part of the weekend pulling apart RH9.0 anaconda and I jotted down some notes and I'm wondering if anyone else has taken a look at some of these areas. . Why no graphical url/ftp installation? I noticed that there still is no way of doing a graphical ftp or http based install. The netstg1.img file has been renamed netstg2.img (which makes a lot more sense) but there still is no provision for doing a graphical network install except via nfs (and I guess this is since it uses stage2.img). There shouldn't be that many technical issues about getting this to work correctly, so did it just fall off the radar at Red Hat? . Crosscompilation? I've been trying to get the loader to cross compile from RH7.2 for RH9.0, but the Makefiles are a bit of a mess. Has anyone else attempted to do this? For the most part I've just been unarchiving each of the -devel-* packages which I need and building a RH9.0 cross compilation tree (although I'm keeping each of the packages seperate and using explicit -I and -L directives). So far the only real hang-ups I've had that are the gettext and bogl binaries are dynamically linked against the wrong glibc so I pulled those apart and I was going to statically link them and put them back in but haven't finished yet. Oh, that and I'm still building loader against libc and not dietlibc until I get everything working. After a lot of Makefile-foo I ended up getting isys to compile with dietlibc correctly and tested it out in a VM running 9.0 and it seemed to work fine, so it'll probably only take me a bit longer to get loader working as well (hopefully). . Boot.iso/boot.img/bootnet.img/driver disks I noticed that the boot.img/bootnet.img files were consolidated into one file and there are now a couple of driver disk images which I guess provide all of the network drivers. I haven't ripped apart the new boot image to see what drivers are in it by default, but I imagine I'll get there in the next couple days. I did like the boot.iso idea as I guess a lot more people have CD-R's these days so it probably makes a lot more sense than installing off of the floppies. Did the driver disks end up being the same as the old driver disks or is their format entirely new? My biggest gripe about the old way in RH7.x was that it's extremely difficult to keep track of each of the PCI ID files in each of the images. It's really easy to accidentally drop support for a particular card because the pci id gets removed from the wrong file. That's it for now. I'll keep on digging and see what else I come up with. --Patrick.
