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| -rw-r--r-- | docs/README | 45 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | docs/TODO | 15 |
2 files changed, 50 insertions, 10 deletions
diff --git a/docs/README b/docs/README index 1c2ac3bd5..e04ea5829 100644 --- a/docs/README +++ b/docs/README @@ -22,6 +22,17 @@ sometimes wonder what the whole make does :-% Instead, changing some .pm files is quite easy (nice interpreted language) ******************************************************************************** +* Making your custom install cdrom ********************************************* +******************************************************************************** +If you have your own rpms you want to add, or make your own updated cdrom, you +just have to update: +- Mandrake/base/hdlist: use ``misc/genhdlist .'' +- Mandrake/base/depslist: use ``misc/gendepslist -h Mandrake/base/depslist Mandrake/base/hdlist'' + +Optionnally, you can modify Mandrake/base/compss, compssList and compssUsers +See below for information about these files. + +******************************************************************************** * FILES ************************************************************************ ******************************************************************************** First he are the different things needed : @@ -39,6 +50,10 @@ Mandrake/base/compss obsoletes comps. It store packages in different categories, a bit like the %{GROUP} field +Mandrake/base/compssUsers + obsoletes comps. It contains the different user classes like ``Graphics + Manipulation'' and ``Games'' + Mandrake/base/compssList for each packages, it gives the appreciation for each type of user. used to preselect packages @@ -67,6 +82,36 @@ Mandrake/base/depslist.html html formatted depslist ******************************************************************************** +* logs ************************************************************************* +******************************************************************************** +During install, a lot of interesting stuff can be found in different places: +in consoles and in files. To switch to console 2 for example, do Ctrl-Alt-F2 +from the X install. +- alt-F1: the stdout of the install. Not very interesting stuff +- alt-F2: simple shell. Quite a lot of commands are available but as they are +written in perl (for space), they do not handle the very same options as normal. +After install, you can do ``chroot /mnt'' to see your system just like after +rebooting. ``rpm -qa'' works for example. +- alt-F3: a lot of interesting things. Be carefull, some ``ERROR'' messages are +not interesting. +- alt-F4: kernel's place. aka the output of dmesg. +- alt-F5: the graphical install lives there (may switch to console 7 one day :) +- alt-F7: the output of commands (like lilo or mke2fs). + +- /tmp/ddebug.log: same (or nearly the same) as alt-F3 +- /tmp/syslog: same as alt-F4 +- /mnt/root/ddebug.log: at the end of each step, DrakX tries to backup +/tmp/ddebug.log to /mnt/root. Available only after mounting of /. +- /mnt/root/install.log: the log of the installation (or upgrade) of the rpms +(just like rpm's /mnt/tmp/(install|upgrade).log) +- /mnt/root/auto_inst.cfg.pl: a kickstart file generated at the end of each +step. Can be used in 2 ways: kickstart install or ``defcfg'' install. Hopefully +you know about kickstart. ``defcfg'' is a way to customize the default values in +install. For example, French can be the default language with a qwerty keyboard, +the auto-partitionning partitions can be changed, the default user class can be +set to developer (!)... + +******************************************************************************** * po translation files ********************************************************* ******************************************************************************** DrakX uses .po files for its translation. A script takes the different @@ -1,6 +1,3 @@ -kickstart like -tolook qw(fstab ) - warn the user if not enough ram to fulfill install using setxkb, enable the testing of the keyboard @@ -9,8 +6,6 @@ enable the testing of the mouse type (under X) (wheel) add fdisk using the zvt widget (taken in gnome-libs) -keyboard shortcuts for the setstep stuff - test after printer config diskdrake should warn if nb_ide_parts > 63, nb_scsi_parts > 15 @@ -36,7 +31,7 @@ get the error when reading .rpm files fail ask for notepad (aka portable) or not ask for hdparm or not ask for more than the memory size detected -ask for the VGA mode for lilo or vidmode +#ask for the VGA mode for lilo or vidmode ask the security level remove the gray line surrounding the logo @@ -55,10 +50,6 @@ handle zip/dat drives remove cpio from base when mkbootdisk deps is added -quotema in _ask_from_list in my_gtk - -look at SuperProbe - timezone using a picture (pb: how to delimit zones) suggested partition tables must be better foreach installClass @@ -92,3 +83,7 @@ use the ability of el torito to handle 2.88MB or more use ddcprobe monitor's size info for pnp monitors use ddcprobe video card memory size info use ddcprobe modelines to reduce the available resolutions + +kickstart like +tolook qw(fstab ) + |