RE: why one rescue & boot disk? (was Re: An 'ae' testimony)

1999-05-25 Thread Mark Blunier
s stage (alpha code), it makes the development cycle much easier than trying to create a boot disk with a compressed file system on it. 3) Other people havent shown much interest in the project. 4) I'm not a developer. Mark Blunier

Re: An 'ae' testimony

1999-05-25 Thread Mark Blunier
On Mon, 24 May 1999, Joey Hess wrote: > Hamish Moffatt wrote: > Slang is quite usable as just a text display library. You can ignore the > embedded language aspects. > > It's a weird library. Should really be two separate libs I think. That would help the space problem on the boot disks Mark

Re: why one rescue & boot disk? (was Re: An 'ae' testimony)

1999-05-25 Thread Mark Blunier
7;ve been making the CD's image from a partition with debian installed (hdb3), but running linux off an installation on hdb2. This made things easier for developement work. Mark Blunier Live CD project http://www.ocslink.com/~blunier/

Re: An 'ae' testimony

1999-05-23 Thread Mark Blunier
x27;ve already done it. My 'rescue' CD is an image of a working Debian system (including X, ftp server, emacs, vi, and anything else I want to put on a 600 meg system), that boots from either a floppy or the CD. The scripts that I've used to create it are at: http://www.ocslink.com/~blunier Mark Blunier

Re: An 'ae' testimony

1999-05-23 Thread Mark Blunier
are you sure you want to install Linux on your own? As far as a recovery disk goes, you are much better off with a real recovery disk. The boot disk is severely crippled when compared to other recovery disks that are readily available. Mark Blunier

Re: why one rescue & boot disk? (was Re: An 'ae' testimony)

1999-05-22 Thread Mark Blunier
Joey Hess wrote: > Steve Lamb wrote: > > Two seperate functions. Why are we trying to cram two seperate > > functions > > into one? > > Good question. If we're getting very cramped (I'm sure we are :-), it might > be time to think about splitting the two. >From what I've been seeing, it doe