El 22/05/16 a las 22:17, aitor_czr escribió:
>
> Hi all,
>
> El 21/05/16 a las 14:00, Didier Kryn <kryn@???> escribió:
>> Le 21/05/2016 11:35, KatolaZ a écrit :
>>> >On Sat, May 21, 2016 at 08:18:16AM +0200, Didier Kryn wrote:
>>> >
>>> >[cut]
>>> >
>>>>> >>>version of the initramfs), but might be useful if you want to use the
>>>>> >>>live image as a rescue cd, and boot into an existing / on your
>>>>> >>>drive. Not necessary. Maybe useful.
>>>> >> The disk controllers need to be on the live cd for sure, but why
>>>> >>in the initramfs?
>>> >Only if you want to boot to an existing partition, which is something
>>> >that I would like to support anyway.
>> OK, I didn't catch that. Means you don't boot to the cdrom and
>> interrupt the initramfs script to ask it to mount the other disk instead?
>>
>>> >
>>>>>> >>>>rebuild the kernel with those drivers statically linked and boot
>>>>>> >>>>directly to the cdrom without and initramfs.
>>>>>> >>>>
>>>>> >>>Oh, sure we could. But my point is to use standard packages from the
>>>>> >>>Devuan repo, without too much of customising/recompiling.
>>>> >> I was just thinking of a minimal hack: starting from Devuan's
>>>> >>kernel config, just change a few drivers' build-mode from module to
>>>> >>static. After all, do you think it's more of a hack than stripping
>>>> >>the initramfs? But I admit it's a different journey than the one you
>>>> >>have undertaken.
>>>> >>
>>> >That would be possible, but maybe it will not be needed, since the
>>> >initrd is currently under 7MB anyway, and the "micro" version might be
>>> >as small as 5 MB. The problem now might be the kernel itself, whose
>>> >size (when decompressed) is of the same order of the initrd:) But I
>>> >won't dig in that direction, for the moment....
>>> >
>>>>> >>> Otherwise we
>>>>> >>>could also recompile everything with uclibc, as done in other minimal
>>>>> >>>distro, and have a truly microscopic userland, but that would be
>>>>> >>>*another* distribution, not a Devuan;)
>>>>> >>>
>>>> >> Musl libc is already a serious challenge:-) Uclibc a nightmare,
>>>> >>too incompatible with glibc.
>>>> >>
>>>> >> Sorry if I look harsh, providing recommendations to people who
>>>> >>do the real job:-) ideas come out of the conversation and I just
>>>> >>like to share them with knowledgeable people.
>>>> >>
>>> >Among adults, receiving honest and "harsh" comments, and reflecting on
>>> >them, is the most effective and productive way to improve on your
>>> >work. Saying that everything is cool and smooth and perfect has never
>>> >saved the world, or changed things. So thank you again for your
>>> >comments, which are very much appreciated and will be taken into
>>> >account seriously, and please feel free to fire at me any thought as
>>> >you have done so far:)
>>> >
>>> >
>> Thanks for your words, and for Devuan at all... I'm going to
>> install beta on a desktop today:-)
>
> I rebuilt KatolaZ's distribution doing some minor changes: I added
> deborphan, firmware-linux-free and ntp... I also removed the refracta
> tools from the filesystem.squashfs, including them in devuan-installer
> together with the backend of simple-netaid as optional unofficial
> packages of Devuan, in a *udeb* package named "unofficial-packages-udeb".
>
> Installing the backend of simple-netaid, you will be able to connect
> to eth0 typing:
>
> /usr/lib/simple-netaid/bin/backend 9 eth0
>
> Here you are the download zone:
>
> http://gnuinos.org/devuan/
>
> Following Jaromil's suggestions, I added the package_list including
> the versions of the installed packages.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Aitor.
Now, i'll add linux-libre-4.x to Gnuinos :)
Aitor.
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