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diff --git a/docs/README b/docs/README index 67179a981..54320919f 100644 --- a/docs/README +++ b/docs/README @@ -1,8 +1,7 @@ -Well here is a little description of what DrakX needs to work in comparison -to the RH newt install. +Well here is a little description of what DrakX needs to work ******************************************************************************** -* CVS ************************************************************************** +* VCS ************************************************************************** ******************************************************************************** Like all good free software, DrakX is in SVN :) @@ -15,32 +14,18 @@ svn co http://svn.mandriva.com/svn/soft/drakx/trunk drakx This is only read-only access. If you want more, tell me (pixel@mandriva.com) -Please note that redoing *all* the stuff is not for the faint of heart. I myself -sometimes wonder what the whole make does :-% -Instead, changing some .pm files is quite easy (nice interpreted language) - ******************************************************************************** * Making your custom install *************************************************** ******************************************************************************** If you have your own rpms you want to add, or make your own updated cdrom, you just have to issue: -% gendistrib --noclean --distrib <DIRS> - -Where <DIRS> is the root of all the media that the install will see, this first -one is the main one : +% gendistrib --noclean --distrib <DIR> -(1) network or 1-cdrom installs - DIRS == the root directory of the Distribution +Where <DIR> is the root of all the distribution. -(2) multi-cdrom install - DIRS == the root directories of all the media that the install will see - -``gendistrib'' will scan the file media/media_info/hdlists in the main root -directory (the first one in DIRS) to search for all media used. Typically you -use media/main for RPM packages repository. -For multi-cd, please use media/main or media/foo, etc. -For one CD or a network/hd volume, please use media/main. +``gendistrib'' will scan the file media/media_info/media.cfg to search for all +media used. Typically you use media/main for RPM packages repository. Optionnally, you can modify ``media/media_info/rpmsrate''; this file manages the relative importance of the files, and thus their installation or not. @@ -60,12 +45,12 @@ media/media_info/media.cfg cf MDV::Distribconf(3) media/media_info/hdlist*.cz - table of rpm's headers, referred by ``hdlists'' + table of rpm's headers, referred by ``media.cfg'' their contents can be listed using ``packdrake -l <hdlist_file>'' or or ``parsehdlist <hdlist_file>''. ! Need to be remade when media/main changes (with ``gendistrib'') ! -media/media_info/compssUsers +media/media_info/compssUsers.pl media/media_info/rpmsrate ranks and classify packages, so that the installer will know which @@ -74,19 +59,15 @@ media/media_info/rpmsrate <level> <packages> where <intern_group> is a symbolic name used in media/media_info/compssUsers* files, and <level> defines importance level as described below : - 5 must have + 5 mandatory 4 important - 3 very nice + 3 interesting 2 nice 1 maybe - installer selects packages for level 4 (important) and 5 (must have). + installer selects packages for level 4 (important) and 5 (mandatory). packages in other level (3, 2, 1) can only be selected using individual package selection. -install/stage2/live - live system used on certain installs. See ``Ramdisk or not'' below for - more. - install/stage2/mdkinst.clp for the compressed loopback of install. generated from install/stage2/live tree using misc/mdkinst_stage2_tool @@ -96,27 +77,22 @@ install/stage2/rescue.clp this is the ramdisk loaded when typing rescue on boot prompt. install/images/all.img - USB image enabling any install + fat16 image to dd on a partition (hint: sda1) install/images/boot.iso iso image to burn enabling any install (cdrom/hd/nfs/ftp) - Boot from cdrom: - - boot.iso : iso image to burn - - Boot from hd (esp. usb key): - - all.img : fat16 image to dd on a partition (hint: sda1) + To boot from cdrom, use boot.iso + To boot from network, use isolinux/alt0/all.rdz + vmlinuz via pxe + To boot from hd (esp. usb key), use all.img. + + NB for usb boot: - it seems some bioses don't use the code on MBR (sda), or at least skip it when it's blanked (eg: "dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda bs=1 count=446") - some bioses need it. I had some luck using dd if=/usr/lib/extipl/aldebaran.bin of=/dev/sda (install package extipl first) - - Boot from network: - - all.rdz + vmlinuz via pxe - - dd for windows: http://uranus.it.swin.edu.au/~jn/linux/rawwrite/dd.htm ******************************************************************************** * logs ************************************************************************* @@ -151,26 +127,11 @@ 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 -strings out of the .pm files. It generates the DrakX.pot file which contains -all the english strings to translate. - -******************************************************************************** -* PCMCIA install *************************************************************** -******************************************************************************** -If the media you use to install is a pcmcia device, use the pcmcia boot disk. - -******************************************************************************** * modules ********************************************************************** ******************************************************************************** -Modules can be found in /modules. - To manually install a module during install, switch to console #2 and type "modprobe <modulename>". The modprobe program is a perl -wrapper around /usr/bin/insmod. It uses the dependencies found in -/modules/modules.dep (stage1). +wrapper around /usr/bin/insmod. ******************************************************************************** * Making screenshots *********************************************************** |