On Sun, Feb 04, 2001 at 03:47:46PM +0100, Rob van der Heij wrote: > > > Sure, would be another option to install things from instead of the > > NFS-root. If you send in patches to our current "linuxrc", I'll be > > glad to add them. Otherwise I'll put this on the TODO list. > > ,-) I should learn to expect such an answer... I think the install Sorry, but the next release currently eats all our devel cycles. :-) > script in the nfs-root is mounting the wrong disk for the /mnt/source > and that was probably preventing it from running. > There also seems to be a heavy mismatch between the README file and > the code (with the environment variables in parameter file) We'll update this. Though if you look at the source, it is pretty obvious how things work. :-) > Adding install more install options appears to confuse most of the > people so we should be careful not to add too many alternatives. > Right now I am hacking the boot record such that you can use OS/390 > to prepare a volume to ipl the kernel + ramdisk so they would not > need to make a tape anymore. Right. We should try to add a minimal set of parameters to support all those different install methods. Thanks a lot, Florian La Roche
