ISO/Core additions

Auke Kok sofar at foo-projects.org
Sun Nov 13 23:16:03 UTC 2005


Zbigniew Luszpinski wrote:

>>Moritz Heiber wrote:
>>    
>>
>>>Hey Auke,
>>>
>>>1) I think we should include udev by default on the ISO. The 2.6.x
>>>based kernels need it for node transactions now as devfs is NOT
>>>supported anymore (as of 2.6.13.x). Without having udev installed any
>>>update from 2.4.x to 2.6.x will fail!
>>>The mount script holds some good logic to take the right choice for
>>>device node handling. We just need to supply udev.
>>>      
>>>
>>not for any 2.4 iso, once you are done installing there is nothing that
>>keeps you from downloading and installing udev yourself - period.
>>
>>after 1.5.2 I'm gonna have a go at making a 2.6 iso - lets not get
>>stupid and duplicate work here when it's not needed.
>>    
>>
>
>How about mixed mode 2.4/2.6 ISO? It should be less work for keeping single, 
>mixed iso than 2 separate. However I realize it will take some work at 
>beginning to put it together.
>

I want to have 2 different versions so I can maintain my 2.4-based servr 
setups, and it would be too much overhead to make this a single-line 
iso. The iso's would be substantially bigger, while most people only 
would use one of the kernels - wasting bandwidth by the megabytes.

Auke



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