Re: [RULE] Feedback on Slinky.iso 0.3.93

[Michael Fratoni]

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On Tuesday 20 May 2003 05:48 am, Ingo Lantschner wrote:
> Hi!
> What a nice day :-) Slinky is getting more and more perfect. The
> messages are now IMHO clear and complete. The installer boots and runs
> completely from CD-ROM (Floppy no more tested this time).

Excellent news.

> I selected TinyX and Abiword-packages - anything ok, after login as
> user and startx I get the already known icewm-desktop and can
> immediatly start Abiword - great.

I did test this myself, repeatedly, on several machines, before releasing 
it. ;)

> The ice-configfiles I saved from the previous install worked fine.
>
> The only surprise was, that the install/.../slinky.config did NOT
> control the installation-process. After consulting the README I saw
> that it must reside in /scripts, which is IMHO built during install. So
> for this version it seems NOT to be possible to give an already
> customized slinky.config on the ISO?!? This may be an idea for a next
> release.

The initial plan was to boot to a shell, and copy slinky.config from a 
floppy to /scripts before beginning the install. Or, boot, and edit the 
provided /scripts/slinky.config.sample, renaming it slinky.config. This 
seemed easiest, given multiple installation methods. I suppose I could 
use a boot option to specify the location of the file. Keep in mind that 
at the start of the install, when the config file would need to be 
loaded, there is no media (floppy, cdrom) mounted. It's not as simple as 
using find to locate the file. I'm open to suggestions.

A work around might be to include your custom slinky.config in the root of 
the .iso, and copy it to /scripts at the beginning of the install. 
Because of the way the installer is built, /scripts is rather 
inaccessible before booting. It is part of the gzipped root file system, 
which is inside the boot.img file. Because of the multiple boot methods, 
I didn't want to start trying to locate a file on unmounted media.

> Anyhow, in general it seems to be 'finished'. We will now test it more
> in depths, add our own post-install script, finish the dokumentation
> and concentrate anything on one ISO, which we will feed back to the
> rule-project.
>
> Thanks in the meantime for all you have done, ru soon, Ingo.

You're quite welcome. I hope this works out well for you.

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