On Mon, 2 Jun 2003, Patrick Devine wrote: > > > 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? Tecnical issue: Where's it going to put the installer's filesystem? With NFS, it cn mount the filesystem via NFS. > > . 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). Note that it's Red Hat Linux 9, not 9.0. Calling it 9.0 implies there will be a 9.1, and I'm offering London to a brick there won't be. Install RHL 9 on a computer. Back it up using (maybe) tar. Restart it somewhere into a directory on your workstation, maybe into /var/local/RedHat/9 To do you work, chroot /var/local/RedHat/9 If you want, you can start daemons and X in there. X offering a login screen could be handy. To do that, you might want a second IP. If so, configure (maybe) eth0:0 outside the chroot environment. This will give you the appearance of running RHL 7.3 and RHL 9 simultaneously on the one computer. PS If you install RHL 9 on the same computer, you don't need to use tar to transfer the filesystem: simply mount it in (maybe) /var/local/RedHat/9. I use some of this to give me a Debian environment on RHL 7,3, -- Please, reply only to the list. Join the "Linux Support by Small Businesses" list at http://mail.computerdatasafe.com.au/mailman/listinfo/lssb
