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1 files changed, 20 insertions, 19 deletions
diff --git a/mdk-stage1/doc/UPDATEMODULES b/mdk-stage1/doc/UPDATEMODULES
index ceef21758..cfae4dc54 100644
--- a/mdk-stage1/doc/UPDATEMODULES
+++ b/mdk-stage1/doc/UPDATEMODULES
@@ -12,13 +12,14 @@ e2fs filesystem.
This disk may contain a number of kernel modules; some of them
may replace existing modules, some of them may be added.
-This disk must contain a special file, named "to_load", on
-the root (not in a subdirectory). This file will contain a series of
-module names, with optional module options; the program will try to load
-all these modules one after another, using file on the floppy if present,
-else using file within standard module repository ("marfile" on the boot
-floppy). It can contain comments, these are strictly defined by the
-presence of a hash (#) character on column 0 of any line.
+
+Create a directory per kernel version, named from the version, for example
+2.6.27-desktop586-0.rc8.2mnb. In this directory put the modules and a special
+file, named "to_load". This file will contain a series of module names, with
+optional module options; the program will try to load all these modules one
+after another, using file on the floppy if present, else using file within
+standard module repository. It can contain comments, these are strictly defined
+by the presence of a hash (#) character on column 0 of any line.
This disk may also contain some update or new modules for installed kernels.
Those modules must be placed in directory <kernel-version>. They must be
@@ -44,17 +45,14 @@ Here's a typical scenario:
--=----=----=----=----=----=----=----=----=--
Our example disk contains:
-[root@obiwan mnt]# ll floppy/
-total 77
-drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 12288 Jul 26 12:02 lost+found/
--rw-r--r-- 1 root root 9051 Jul 26 12:43 msdos.ko
--rw-r--r-- 1 root root 13660 Jul 26 12:04 ppa.ko
--rw-r--r-- 1 root root 54 Jul 26 12:46 to_load
--rw-r--r-- 1 root root 32108 Jul 26 12:04 uhci.ko
--rw-r--r-- 1 root root 6572 Jul 26 12:04 wacom.ko
-drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 Jul 26 12:04 2.6.8.1-20mdk
-drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 Jul 26 12:04 2.6.8.1-20mdksmp
-[root@obiwan mnt]# cat floppy/to_load
+[root@obiwan mnt]# ll floppy/*
+2.6.27-desktop586-0.rc8.2mnb/:
+total 541
+drwxrwxr-x 3 a a 1024 2009-03-09 12:09 kernel/
+-rw-rw-r-- 1 a a 547480 2009-03-09 12:04 msdos.ko
+-rw-rw-r-- 1 a a 54748 2009-03-09 12:04 ppa.ko
+-rw-rw-r-- 1 a a 79 2009-03-09 12:08 to_load
+[root@obiwan mnt]# cat floppy/*/to_load
# Update Drivers description file
3c59x
# fat is a dep for msdos
@@ -66,7 +64,10 @@ ppa
ne io=0x300 irq=7
# New module [list_modules: disk/scsi]
a320raid
-[root@obiwan mnt]# (cd floppy/2.6.8.1-20mdk ; find -type f)
+[root@obiwan mnt]# (cd floppy/2.6.27-desktop586-0.rc8.2mnb ; find -type f)
+./msdos.ko
+./ppa.ko
+./to_load
./kernel/fs/msdos/msdos.ko.gz
./kernel/drivers/scsi/ppa.ko.gz
./kernel/drivers/usb/host/uhci-hcd.ko.gz
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-URGENT---------------------------------------------------------------------------------
check for fpons/pixel BOTH that resize_fat is clean for current version
relative to 7.0-2.

heavy testing of diskdrake to avoid corrupting partition table, current version
should be available to fix bogus partition table, writing enabled only when
partition is Ok (fixme? allow primary partition inside extended one, but with
warning on diskdrake startup, made them as warning ?).

-features-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
add rpmdrake in menu

(NEED 7.1) auto-install for corporate, very important (need consolidation).

(7.1 or later) clean SCSI CDROM autoboot.
stage1 & cdrom: add ability in expert to choose the scsi cdrom drive to use

(7.1)install in 800x600
- need handling of both 640x480 (mostly for VGA16) and 800x600

(7.1)better help for partitioning in newbie

(7.1)Improved network configuration (PPP and/or Ethernet)
PPPoE install and configuration (SuSE includes it, DHCP-like)
(7.1)standalone applications for configuration (netdrake, timetool, authentificationconf, soundcard)

----
(7.2) replace normal with standard (in the installClass's)

(7.2 or later)horizontal sub-steps

(7.2 or later)diskdrake in text mode

ask "do you have SCSI?" before asking "probe PCI or not"

(?) paride in stage1
stage1 & network: add ability to choose the network interface to use

(?) msec custom

(?)firewall configuration (instant firewalling?)

(?)widget for displaying fdisk (dindinx)
add fdisk using the zvt widget (taken in gnome-libs)

(?)help in some configuration files.

ability to add nfs/weird_fs entries in fstab

size of packages in crypto

-to test--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
what's lseek64?

ensure installClass is set to something in auto install.

for axp, swriteboot -f1 if swriteboot failed.
axp with swap part sigsegv

tree for choosing monitors (buggy?)

what happens if a module fails to insmod (scsi step), in beginner/normal/expert

fstab must be sorted (/usr/local after /usr)

RAID upgrades

add choice clean /tmp or not in expert

kernel chosen by default must be the one according to supermount/secure

bug if ide-scsi, no more hdX, but scd0 (aka sr0)
 (and add alias block-major-11 ide-scsi ?)

check on update for conf.modules and modules.conf !

with /usr, /usr/local and /usr/local/e mount points i get an error at step mounting local filesystems

-easy fixes-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
rpmdrake proposition for cdrom labels

use option nocheck to mount for upgrades

-fixes needing thinking-----------------------------------------------------------------
bug: changing mem= in miscellaneous doesn't modify lilo conf if you backtrack

ask network configuration only if NIC found?

configure DHCP for newbies if ethernet & DHCP card available

xvidtune like screen configuration (see SuSE's yast)

live cdrom for alpha (sparc?)

network boot

get the error when getting/reading .rpm files fail
better timeout handling for network installs

handle not enough room for update
(fpons)verify the free space is big enough.

the XFdrake test does not handle the fontset

> Here I go into the printer configuration select 'HP Deskjet 722C Colour',
> print a test ASCII page, pressing 'No' when prompted to indicate the page did
> not print OK and then hitting cancel when prompted to choose a printer type
> again.
> ask_from_list cancel at /usr/lib/libDrakX/my_gtk.pm line 504.

diskdrake: take from parted mklabel, hide(?)

bug in kde desktop if keeps home but not an upgrade
	
bug in users: mandrake user is added twice in strange installs
(mixed of security 0 + ???)

bugs rpmdrake: 
- just after installing a package, switch to `Installed', the package has wrong name
- refresh the kde desktop after package installation in rpmdrake
(restart kpanel)
- rpmdrake and same name packages

urpmi: pb if XXX-devel requires XXX = 1.2.3 and we updgrade XXX-1.2.3

bug in defcfg in with lang=fr_FR, display is buggy

bug keyboard focus: after switch in console at Xconfig step



-to look at--------------------------------------------------------------------------
adduserdrake to remove/update users

(???)free provider auto configuration facility (to be discussed).
auto ppp-configure with free provider

(?)on laptop, configure the MMU to use swap not very often

(?)checkboxes in groups based on compssList (and availableSpace?)

(?)see what can be done with nvram (50 bytes to save information)

better wacom support

(fpons)bug: CANON BJC 4X00 do not work with current rhs-printfilters
  (work with magicfilters (debian))
  (should be handled by ghostscript BJC600's driver)

(pix)install text on mem=8M, mem=16M?

(pix)kickstart
partitioning? raid?
X configuration and bootloader in kickstart

XFdrake chooseResolutions with ask_from_list do not permit ``Show all''

(?) options in mkfs, progress bar when formatting

(?) when some error occurs, partition must be unset isFormatted

-hardware-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
- with no floppy drive, mkbootdisk step fails badly
- with bad floppy or write protected, mkbootdisk doesn't say anything
- try detect_devices::floppies (and how are scsi floppies handled?)
maybe: do a iotcl FDGETPRM to detect fd1, fd0.

need a simple solution to precise mouse type (syslinux option?)

ELSA Gloria has bad ddc info

token ring is tr0 not eth0

I have Mandrake 6.1  installed and working on a ThinkPad 770.
To enable the PCMCIA Token ring I have to append the following line to
/etc/pcmcia/config.opts
module "ibmtr_cs" opts "mmiobase=0xd2000 srambase=0xd4000"

smp not detected (mhoward@memphisonline.com on cooker, bios=BP6PW)

UDMA66 (ultra66.o for promise)

aha152x needs "insmod aha152x.o aha152x=0x140,11,7"

(obsolete) usb module not removed if no mouse found

(fpons)handle dat drives

hibernation on laptop -> clock not restored

# in 2.3.15 "Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS]|SiS900 10/100 Ethernet" is handled

(?)enable the testing of the mouse type (under X) (wheel)
possibility to specify the mouse

-(?)---------------------------------------------------------------------------------
(?) handle NT (add entry for it in lilo, put it in fstab)

(?) lilo-0.22-19mdk is buggy with boot=/dev/hde & root=/dev/sda13, it needs
disk=/dev/hde bios=0x80 & disk=/dev/sda bios=0x81

(?)using setxkb, enable the testing of the keyboard

(?)XFdrake does not handle fbdev

(?) Je viens de faire une installation sur une machine où seul Be était
installé. Je l'ai supprimé et installé (mode recommandé) Oxygen. Au
redémarrage, le boot manager de Be apparaît et il est impossible de
démarrer Linux.
Pourquoi ne pas installer LILO si on supprime toutes les partitions ?

(?)initrd in bzip2

(?)smaller zsh (or ash in initrd)

(?)is configureNetworkNet needed with dhcp/bootp?

(?)bug in upgrade: install from hda1:/usr/local/blah with hda1:/

(?)mandrake_desk was not installed while kdebase it there on upgrade

(?)when clicking on X configuration, installation of packages is not displayed

(?)maybe remove commented lines in /usr/lib/perl5/... files

(?)timezone using a picture (pb: how to delimit zones)
when asking GMT or not, display the time for each possibility
the list is too big for USA

(?)ability to select the type of install when booting of cdrom
(?)use the ability of el torito to handle 2.88MB or more 

(obsolete)lilo-deinstallation in case of lilo auto-installation for beginners

(?)loadFont sucks

(obsolete)trash on the screen when X first starts

(?)remove the gray line surrounding the logo

(?)cleanup /etc/services & /etc/protocols

(?)strange: no scsi of type 'fd', only 'tape'

(?)remount ro before X test.

(?)remove every << and >> (doesn't handle > 32bits)


-done---------------------------------------------------------------------------------
(7.1,done,fpons) improve printerdrake to at least have the same functionalities as printtool.

(done,fpons)diskdrake can olverlap partitions (resize lower, resize original typically
after clear all and auto allocate, try maximal size available).

(done,fpons)rewrite mouseconfig in perl?

(done,pix)kudzu or not in miscellaneous

(done,pix)warn the user if not enough ram to fulfill install

(done,fpons)test after printer config

(done,pix)ask for more than the memory size detected

(done,fpons)modem config

(done,pix)call kudzu in batch to initialize its list

(done,pix)standalone generator of mdkinst_stage2.gz

(done,pix)text install

(done,pix) if u choose mouse usb != found mouse, it fails at X config

(done,pix) diskdrake bug: saved information on floppy contains isMounted.

(done,pix) update devices.c from modules.pm

(done,pix) in lilo.conf, put 
disk=/dev/hdb
  bios=0x80

(done,pix) diskdrake
auto_partitions
suggested partition tables must be better foreach installClass

(done,pix) update the list of modules (in update_kernel)

(done,pix) language support: only choose the right locales and upmark the packages requiring it

(done,pix) move security question before isntallation of packages

(done,pix) install ssh

(done,fpons,pix) change the boot message of syslinux (have something different from RedHat)

(done,pix) install_steps.pm: 569 (128M + 3)

(done,pix) bug: mouse freeze just before network configuration (mouse primax)
  (was kudzu)

(done,pix) signal 11 in stage1 nfs kickstart mount failed

(done,pix) ask supermount or not, no supermount with kernel-secure

(done,pix) fix bug in g_auto_install (can't go through all)

(done,pix) bug: install from ciril.fr fails

(done,pix)wizard for partitioning in case of one full vfat

(done,dindinx)app for choosing drakxtools (drakxconf)
(done,pix)verify being root
(done,pix)log::l -> initlog

(done,pix)install apmd for laptops (maybe not start apmd though)
(done,pix)icewm apm (sh icewm_apm)
(done,pix)kde apm (put Kapm.kdelnk in ~/Desktop/Autostart)

(done,pix)bug in adduserdrake: missing pwconv in md5
(done,pix)correct the default value of draksec (cp draksec)
(done,pix)in draksec, (and maybe others) have --expert as default if /etc/sysconfig/system has TYPE=expert

(done,pix)bug in XFdrake in install, cancel in choose Card do not close the window

(done,pix)in XFdrake, testing should not overwrite /etc/X11/XF86Config

(done,pix) hwiz and supermount and eject :(

(done(replaced by msec's),pix) bug: usermod -G urpmi a not done (full install)

(done,pix)perl and .ph's

(done,pix) BUG bootp in network install sigsegv

(done,pix) move the last done stuff before Xconfiguration if possible

(done,pix)draksec is buggy, don't try security >= 4

(done,pix)install apmd on laptops?? (maybe ask emcweb@btinernet.com (see alix))

(done,pix)missing alias ll for root

(done,pix)urpmi.addmedia:  |gzip instead of doing it afterwards

(done,pix)locale (and fonts?) buggy in case ramdisk is used

(done,pix)rpmdrake: Installed packages not in hdlist should be there

(done)in ftp install, locale not installed properly

(done,pix)pcmcia.img does not handle hd/cdrom

(done,pix)cyrillic font buggy in DrakX

(done,fred)remove xfs user from kdm

(done,pix)bug with 2 cdrom drives (.kdelnk to there for 1st drive)

(done,pix(works))test ramdisk stage2 and romanian

(done,pix)kfmrc

(done,pix)on laptop, default to 1024x768

(done,pix)mkinitrd and deps

(done,fred(removed the call))XFdrake and mousedrake freeze if lothar launches them

(done,pix)crypto message

(done,pix)test bug with lilo and windows (if not on mbr)

(done,pix)removed icons come back later (kde desktop)

(done,pix(was bug in upgrade reading old config))
  segfault in linuxconf (adapter 1 empty)
  (test with the sysconfig sent)

(done,fpons)bug: Lrosqu'on effectue une mise à jour et que /etc/lilo.conf
contient la variable « default » positionnée sur autre chose que
« linux » ou « windows », DrakX est incapable de générer LILO.

(done,fpons)bug: GeForce and hd.img?