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  • From: Casey Harkins <charkins AT upl.cs.wisc.edu>
  • To: Damien Mascord <tusker AT tusker.org>
  • Cc: sm-discuss AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: RE: [SM-Discuss] [cauldron] tasks for team
  • Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2003 21:38:25 -0500 (CDT)


Sounds like a good idea, but I have no experience with ipv6. If you could
give me a run down on how things are configured (and/or point me to a
decent overview somewhere) I'll take a stab at it. The networking.sh
init.d script will need to be updated as well (obviously).

-casey


On Fri, 20 Jun 2003, Damien Mascord wrote:

> Hi Casey,
>
> While you are playing with netconf, do you think it might be a good idea
> to consider ipv6?
>
> Currently the RedHat configuration scripts for this are horrendous, and
> don't work too well [adding strange routes etc etc]. Manual
> configuration for ipv6 work using iproute2, though having this
> integrated with the ipv4 configuration, it would be a god send.
>
> If you want further information, and/or information about ipv6 and how
> it all works etc etc, I'd be happy to help get this part of it up and
> running (as I'd imagine it would be useful to others to).
>
> Damien
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: sm-discuss-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org
> [mailto:sm-discuss-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of Casey Harkins
> Sent: Friday, 20 June 2003 6:28 AM
> To: wandre.l AT free.fr
> Cc: sm-discuss AT lists.ibiblio.org
> Subject: Re: [SM-Discuss] [cauldron] tasks for team
>
>
>
>
> On Thu, 19 Jun 2003 wandre.l AT free.fr wrote:
> > Apparently caseyh should be able to work by himself (if error, tell us
> caseyh:)
>
> No problems with that. The network configuration is almost done (see bug
> #3531). I will need to discuss with someone on how to get the installer
> to
> use this (basically just 'chroot /mnt/root /usr/sbin/netconf' when the
> user wants to configure networking, assuming net-tools has already been
> installed on the hard drive).
>
> I may tackle ppp configuration next and could even do pppoe if someone
> could describe the setup for me and test it.
>
> > <other topic>
> > w0rf suggested copying the base system (iso content) to hard drive,
> preventing
> > us from having image.tar.bz2. that would require some on-the-fly
> changes while
> > copying, but i feel this is possible. comments, ideas, thoughts,
> flames ?
>
> I think a better solution would be to include separate binary packages
> for
> each spell (taken straight from /var/cache/sorcery on the iso build
> machine) needed for the hard drive basesystem. This way, some optional
> basesystem components could be excluded for those who don't need them
> (minicom,reiserfsprogs,xfsprogs,raidtools,etc). It also lends itself
> well
> to building auto-install cd's since extra binary packages could be
> included and installed through some configuration script.
>
> Depending on what language and external tools the new installer will
> use,
> the iso filesystem can probably be trimmed down significantly by using a
> statically linked busybox whenever possible. I did a line-by-line
> analysis
> of the current installer a little while ago and found that only bash,
> consolechars, dialog, hwclock, loadkeys, mkfs, mkreiserfs, cfdisk, fdisk
> and parted were not provided by busybox (actually shutdown was not
> included either, but busybox does provide a reboot command).
>
> I guess the ideal situation *is* to have a basesystem on the iso and
> have
> everything built directly onto the hard drive without ever installing
> binary packages. This could be possible by getting the iso filesystem
> accessible from within a chroot /mnt/root and fudging the paths so that
> the compiler and libraries on the cd can be found while building.
>
> Just my 1/2 cent...
>
> -casey
>
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