On Mon, Feb 19, 2001 at 07:19:18AM +0100, Rob van der Heij wrote: > For S/390 installations it is not unusual to have Token Ring on > the floor rather than Ethernet. I found quite a few places in > the install scripts where the tests were hairy to add tr0 as the > interface (e.g. where 'not eth' means point-to-point connection). > > If possible it would be nice to support more than a single > interface already during install (to have a private IUCV connection > to a NFS server and use the proper one for telnetting in) but if I > can get in before running the install script I should be fine. > > While install with nfs-root is elegant I think it is rather tough > for the people who have been installing SuSE so far. They already > have trouble enough getting one system up, having another one close > enough to run nfs-root is a problem. > If you could add tar etc to the initrd we could just untar nfs-root > on a second disk and use that as our root file system for the real > install. I would love to do this myself but I lack both time and > skills. The existing code is small and good, but it must be extended with all above suggestions to get a real flexible installer. I have already added the above things in a TODO list for the installer. Thanks, Florian La Roche
