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Hello,

I googled on H/W detection and discovered Kloopix, a CD Boot Linux created by
Mr Kloop which he has named after himself.

It uses Kudzu libraries, this will save me from having to learn the C language
at this late date.

It took a little digging to find the sources for his product.
http://www.knopper.net/download/knoppix/

PDF Slides on Kloopix:
http://www.knopper.net/knoppix/knoppix-slides-ifa2001.pdf

From the Usenix paper of 2000:

hwsetup - a selfmadetool that uses the kudzu-library [4] - detects
devices,loads all necessary driver modules for known hardware, sets up symbolic
links in /dev and writes configura-tion parameters and options to the
corresponding files in /etc/sysconfig/ on the ramdisk. Parameters that cannot
be auto-detected (frequency ranges of oldmonitors, desired keyboard layout,
language) are assumed with reasonable defaults. A single X-Windowsession is
started if the graphics hardware has been identified correctly. Default is
truecolor in a resolution of1024x786 pixels if possible, or 800x600/640x480 at
8- bit if the graphics adapter cannot handle higher resolu-tions or color
depths. If detected, the accelerated XFree (3.3) drivers are used with specific
options depending onthe detected graphics adapter. 


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SYSLINUX is a boot loader for the Linux operating system which
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On 04/17/2002 02:07:32 PM Friedrich Lobenstock wrote:
>no...@so... wrote:
>>
>> I think it's enough to replace tar. Unfortunately we didn't
>> copy "tar" to the Initrd, so the Busybox version was used.
>> I already made a patch, but I can't check it in before I
>> come back (Friday).
>
>NO don't take the tar from the LFS system! When I tested this last tim=
e
>I only had success when I took the tar from my SuSE 7.3 system.

I didn't take the tar from the LFS system, I added it to the  build scr=
ipt
so we compile our own.
Probably we have to check the SuSE srpm's to see if they add a "special=
"
patch except of the bz2 addon.

cu
  Heiko
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no...@so... wrote:
> 
> I think it's enough to replace tar. Unfortunately we didn't
> copy "tar" to the Initrd, so the Busybox version was used.
> I already made a patch, but I can't check it in before I
> come back (Friday).

NO don't take the tar from the LFS system! When I tested this last time
I only had success when I took the tar from my SuSE 7.3 system.

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Bugs item #543397, was opened at 2002-04-13 09:26
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Category: Base System
Group: None
Status: Open
Resolution: None
Priority: 9
Submitted By: Heiko Zuerker (smiley73)
>Assigned to: Heiko Zuerker (smiley73)
Summary: crc error in packages

Initial Comment:
add tar to build system
make sure, md5sum is available in base system and 
initrd
create md5sums for packages and check them before 
unpacking the tarballs

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>Comment By: Heiko Zuerker (smiley73)
Date: 2002-04-17 12:47

Message:
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user_id=112133

I think it's enough to replace tar. Unfortunately we didn't 
copy "tar" to the Initrd, so the Busybox version was used.
I already made a patch, but I can't check it in before I 
come back (Friday).

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Feature Requests item #492600, was opened at 2001-12-13 15:10
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Category: None
Group: None
Status: Open
Priority: 5
Submitted By: Heiko Zuerker (smiley73)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: routing (route.conf)

Initial Comment:
write a script, which is reading /etc/route.conf and 
set's the routes
for an example look at the SuSE distribution.

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>Comment By: Heiko Zuerker (smiley73)
Date: 2002-04-13 10:17

Message:
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user_id=112133

moved it back to the feature requests, because we shouldn't 
just use a script from another distribution, that's 
not "nice".
But Friedl had a pretty good idea, here is his email from 
the mailing list:

Ok, then why don't we add the routing entries to 
the /etc/sysconfig/nic/ files?

Eg: /etc/sysconfig/nic/ifcfg-eth0
DHCP=no
#DHCP=yes
#DHCP=server
ONBOOT=yes
DEVICE=eth0
IP=10.90.1.200
NETMASK=255.255.255.0
#BROADCAST=10.90.1.255
MODULE=pcnet32


Suggested additions:
DHCP=no
#DHCP=yes
#DHCP=server
ONBOOT=yes
DEVICE=eth0
IP=10.90.1.200
NETMASK=255.255.255.0
#BROADCAST=10.90.1.255
MODULE=pcnet32
DEFAULT=10.90.1.1
NETWORKS="10.90.2.0/24 10.1.0.0/16:10.90.1.30"

This would produce (just from my mind, but it should work 
this way):
# LANG=en netstat -rn
Kernel IP routing table
Destination     Gateway         Genmask         Flags   MSS 
Window  irtt Iface
10.90.1.0       0.0.0.0         255.255.255.0   U        40 
0          0 eth0
10.90.2.0       0.0.0.0         255.255.255.0   U        40 
0          0 eth0
10.1.0.0        10.90.1.30      255.255.0.0     UG       40 
0          0 eth0
0.0.0.0         10.90.1.1       0.0.0.0         UG       40 
0          0 eth0

That should be all we need, shouldn't it?

BTW someone please read the LSB if they have something to 
say about this matter.

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Friedrich Lobenstock

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Comment By: Heiko Zuerker (smiley73)
Date: 2002-04-11 17:43

Message:
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Arne provided a running script.
Needs just to be checked and included.

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Bugs item #543397, was opened at 2002-04-13 09:26
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Category: Base System
Group: None
Status: Open
Resolution: None
Priority: 9
Submitted By: Heiko Zuerker (smiley73)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: crc error in packages

Initial Comment:
add tar to build system
make sure, md5sum is available in base system and 
initrd
create md5sums for packages and check them before 
unpacking the tarballs

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Friedrich Lobenstock wrote:
> Heiko Zuerker wrote:
> 
>>I took a closer look on the files Arne sent me and it's just the SuSE
>>script. :-(
>>So we still have to write one on our own.
>>
> 
> Ok, then why don't we add the routing entries to the /etc/sysconfig/nic/ files?
> NETWORKS="10.90.2.0/24 10.1.0.0/16:10.90.1.30"

I really like that idea !


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cu
   Heiko

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Heiko Zuerker wrote:
> 
> I took a closer look on the files Arne sent me and it's just the SuSE
> script. :-(
> So we still have to write one on our own.

Ok, then why don't we add the routing entries to the /etc/sysconfig/nic/ files?

Eg: /etc/sysconfig/nic/ifcfg-eth0
DHCP=no
#DHCP=yes
#DHCP=server
ONBOOT=yes
DEVICE=eth0
IP=10.90.1.200
NETMASK=255.255.255.0
#BROADCAST=10.90.1.255
MODULE=pcnet32


Suggested additions:
DHCP=no
#DHCP=yes
#DHCP=server
ONBOOT=yes
DEVICE=eth0
IP=10.90.1.200
NETMASK=255.255.255.0
#BROADCAST=10.90.1.255
MODULE=pcnet32
DEFAULT=10.90.1.1
NETWORKS="10.90.2.0/24 10.1.0.0/16:10.90.1.30"

This would produce (just from my mind, but it should work this way):
# LANG=en netstat -rn
Kernel IP routing table
Destination     Gateway         Genmask         Flags   MSS Window  irtt Iface
10.90.1.0       0.0.0.0         255.255.255.0   U        40 0          0 eth0
10.90.2.0       0.0.0.0         255.255.255.0   U        40 0          0 eth0
10.1.0.0        10.90.1.30      255.255.0.0     UG       40 0          0 eth0
0.0.0.0         10.90.1.1       0.0.0.0         UG       40 0          0 eth0

That should be all we need, shouldn't it?

BTW someone please read the LSB if they have something to say about this matter.

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Friedrich Lobenstock
____________________________________________________________________
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____________________________________________________________________

I took a closer look on the files Arne sent me and it's just the SuSE 
script. :-(
So we still have to write one on our own.

-- 

cu
   Heiko

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Hey folks,

I'm out of town until end of next week.
It's not sure that I'll have Internet access, so I would appreciate it, 
when you could watch the forum on the website and answer emails to the 
mailinglist.

Thanks

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cu
   Heiko

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Bugs item #492600, was opened at 2001-12-13 15:10
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>Category: None
Group: None
Status: Open
Resolution: None
Priority: 5
Submitted By: Heiko Zuerker (smiley73)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: routing (route.conf)

Initial Comment:
write a script, which is reading /etc/route.conf and 
set's the routes
for an example look at the SuSE distribution.

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>Comment By: Heiko Zuerker (smiley73)
Date: 2002-04-11 17:43

Message:
Logged In: YES 
user_id=112133

Arne provided a running script.
Needs just to be checked and included.

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Bugs item #542726, was opened at 2002-04-11 17:40
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Category: Base System
Group: None
Status: Open
Resolution: None
Priority: 5
Submitted By: Heiko Zuerker (smiley73)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: update nano

Initial Comment:
v1.0.9 is available
http://www.nano-editor.org/

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Hey,

I found the problem, /dev/hdd* was missing.
It's fixed in CVS.

@john
I create a new ISO and upload it to our ftp server ( ftp://ftp.de.devil-linux.org/pub/devel/testing ).

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no...@so... wrote:
> Initial Comment:
> I can't access some webpages, e.g.:
> http://www.compaq.com
> http://www.pharmacongress.net
> 
> Somebody else uses Squid with DL?
> 
> Made package with old Squid v2.4stable6, but it's the 
> same.


This is really a big problem for me right now, is somebody else using 
Squid with DL ?

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Bugs item #542238, was opened at 2002-04-10 18:33
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Category: Package
Group: None
Status: Open
Resolution: None
Priority: 7
Submitted By: Heiko Zuerker (smiley73)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: problems with squid

Initial Comment:
I can't access some webpages, e.g.:
http://www.compaq.com
http://www.pharmacongress.net

Somebody else uses Squid with DL?

Made package with old Squid v2.4stable6, but it's the 
same.

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Bugs item #542234, was opened at 2002-04-10 18:27
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Category: Base System
Group: None
Status: Open
Resolution: None
Priority: 5
Submitted By: Heiko Zuerker (smiley73)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: update util-linux

Initial Comment:
v2.11q
http://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/

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On 04/10/2002 12:21:43 PM Friedrich Lobenstock wrote:
>On Wed, 10 Apr 2002 12:09, Heiko Zuerker wrote:
>
>>
>> >Just removed 2> /dev/null in cd mount in initrd and booted from the=

>44x
>> >cd
>> >device with the boot cd that works in the 1x device.
>> >
>> >Error
>> >
>> >mount: Mounting /dev/hdd on /cdrom failed: No such file or director=
y
>> >
>> >I think I will add a loop to try it a few times... any ideas ??
>>
>> I think /cdrom is missing.
>> Add a "mkdir -p /cdrom" before the mount command.
>
>/cdrom exists in initrd.
>No the /dev/ entry mustbe missing. Just checked this on 0.5b6-pre.
>
>friedl:~/devil-linux/lfssystem/data/build # l
>tmp/ISO/initrdtree/dev/hdd*
>ls: tmp/ISO/initrdtree/dev/hdd*: No such file or directory
>
>Heiko please check this on the current version.


I'm very confused right now.
It's a very long time ago, when I worked on the initrd. I checked the b=
uild
system and did find nothing, where we create any devices for initrd.
Am I blind right now?

cu
  Heiko=