Re: Anaconda patches
Dean Anderson <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.linux.aurora.devel |
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| Message-ID | <Pine.LNX.4.44.0312031838160.2114-100000@cirrus> |
inline On Wed, 3 Dec 2003, Tom 'spot' Callaway wrote: > On Wed, 2003-12-03 at 16:50, Dean Anderson wrote: > > Patch 2 allows the use of an FTP site for kickstart. No rocket science. I > > notice that anaconda is running out of flag space. Only 5 bits left... > > Can you check Fedora's anaconda to see if these patches can be made to > apply upstream? At this point, unless there is significant demand, I > don't plan on respinning Build 1.0. Sure, I was just thinking about that... > > While I'm on the subject, one thing I am considering is a adding another > > 'gui' framework that doesn't use the snack text menu system. I like the > > text gui, and I also like the Gnome gui, all in the right contexts. What > > I seem to require yet is an interface that can be supervised by expect. > > Is anyone else interested in this? > > I'm not sure how useful this would be... doesn't this do the same thing > as kickstart? If its automated, it doesn't really matter what gui > interface it uses... but you might want to ask Jeremy Katz what he > thinks. Almost. But ks still requires some screens to be filled out. Maybe there is something wrong with ks... I still get a screen to select the language, and another to specify the IP address information, and then one to select the type of install, and then install host. After that, ks does everything. Perhaps these screens shouldn't be coming up, or I'm doing something wrong with ks... > Red Hat would undoubtedly like to get a copy of this, if its not a > publicly known rootkit. > > Any chance of sharing that? I can give you a security contact at Red Hat > if you're interested. Sure. I think these may have been posted already (they're now two years old). But the Debian story got me thinking about them again. > Thanks for the patches! You're welcome. _______________________________________________ Aurora-sparc-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.auroralinux.org/mailman/listinfo/aurora-sparc-devel Aurora FAQ: http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~mas01r/aurorafaq.html