[Fwd: Re: lunar-1.6.4-alpha3-x86_64.iso issues]

[Stefan Wold]

Bah to early in the morning, didn't notice the to for lunar-dev so I
never did reply to all ;)

/Stefan

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From: Stefan Wold <ratler at lunar-linux.org>
To: Dennis Veatch <dennisveatch at bellsouth.net>
Subject: Re: lunar-1.6.4-alpha3-x86_64.iso issues
Date: Mon, 15 Sep 2008 07:19:36 +0200

On Sun, 2008-09-14 at 20:14 -0400, Dennis Veatch wrote:
> Ratler,
> 
> that is some mighty fine work, and well appreciated. Though I have two issues 
> with this ISO.

Thank you.

> First. For the longest time the ISO has had reiserfs, XFS and/or JFS built 
> into the kernel. The reason for the "and/or" on the last two items, I am not 
> sure if one or both were built in. AFAICR, at least two of those were, and I 
> am puzzled why they have been moved a module, and forcing a kernel recompile 
> on the install to use them. I would really appreciate at least reiserfs 
> returned to a built-in. I only bark about this because I have been using 
> reiserfs for that past 4 years or so with lunar.

This is probably a misstake from my side, I'll fix this for the next
release that should be a beta.

> Along that same topic. I think to force a kernel rebuild to get them, lessens 
> the ability to use the ISO as a recovery tool. But that is just my opinion.

Recovery should however work fine even the filesystem drivers are
compiled as modules.

> 
> Now to the main issue. At the partitioning phase, not knowing reiserfs would 
> require a kernel rebuild, I had to go back and choose ext3. Well, I could go 
> through the motions of selecting the partition, choosing ext3, and all 
> appeared normal. Until it got to the installing part. None of the partitions 
> were mounted and the install failed.

Hmm this seems odd, do you mean that re-assigning a partition cause it
to not show up in /etc/fstab after first boot? But the installation
still succeed?

> 
> There is one other thing. When you first arrive at the partitioning menu, it 
> shows you the current filesystem of the partitions. Right now, after choosing 
> the partition, making it / (as an example), and choosing the new filesystem 
> you want it to be. When you arrive back to the partitioning menu, you are 
> shown the device, that it will be /, and the size. It would be great if the 
> menu also showed you the filesystem you have selected.

Good feedback, I think that should be easily fixed.

> 
> Oh, and one other item. The iwl3945 needs the ipw3945-ucode. Though I am not 
> for sure if we can include that on the ISO. But at a guess, our lead developer 
> might be able to work out that issue for us.

The source for iwl-3945-ucode and iwl-4965-ucode should be on the iso,
so even without network you should be able to run lin iwl-xxxx-ucode.

-- 
Sincerely
Stefan Wold
Lunar Linux developer - PGP public key 6E810F05
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