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14 Commits

Author SHA1 Message Date
Michael Shigorin
429ce58608 added live_rw support
There's a need for a separate boot target since
persistent storage is way slower than tmpfs indeed;
usbflash has a tendency for huge performance drops
given simultaneous writes in addition to reads which
are the bottleneck already.

make-initrd-propagator 0.18 introduced ext4 rw slice,
so the corresponding kernel module needs to be included
into stage1; see also #28289.

NB: not available on x86_64-efi (or hybrid GPT to be strict)
due to fragility of the hack being made: parted(8) panics
upon seeing that, and good ol' fdisk is unable to treat it.

NB: use/live/rw use/rescue/rx use/syslinux/ui/gfxboot
are unlikely to play very nice together due to the latter's
magic l10n: "session" label is taken by live_rw config snippet
and *is* translated in design-bootloader-source;
OTOH "rescue_session" is *not*.
2013-03-25 14:13:42 +04:00
Michael Shigorin
92fb8bd361 rescue: add security related pkglists as well
It's currently security+extra.
2013-03-06 01:21:03 +02:00
Michael Shigorin
1f94112e7f initial rescue+misc
Things that weren't fit in the other rescue pkglists went here;
more are sure to follow.
2013-03-06 01:21:03 +02:00
Michael Shigorin
0c6cfd855e rescue: added server+network
It happens to hold a noticeable share of what might go into
rescue+misc, so why duplicate.
2013-03-06 01:21:03 +02:00
Michael Shigorin
546fae5961 rescue: extended firmware support
As the firmware feature got more involved, this one
has successfully dodged the change but is amended now.
2013-03-06 01:20:37 +02:00
Michael Shigorin
17736ec40e wireless: depend on firmware
Richard and Theo would probably roll their eyes at this point
but the unfortunate reality is that wireless hardware is very
much dependent on firmware being explicitly provided; so here
it is.

rtl8192 kernel module added since it's present in t6/branch
at least.
2013-02-21 22:36:27 +04:00
Michael Shigorin
3a3893b664 rescue += firmware (server, wireless)
There's no use of a rescue image when it has no firmware
for the controller in the system being worked on...
so added some.
2012-08-13 15:51:53 +04:00
Michael Shigorin
b21353a00c complex subprofile delimiter changed ("/" -> "@")
That sub/stage2/install2 was somewhat clumsy actually as it looked
like a hierarchical thing while being a substitution thing:
generic stage2 would get put in place renamed as install2.

This could only get worse with hierarchical features which have
already been both requested and considered for quite a time,
and "stage2 at install2" reads much more naturally.
2012-08-11 20:11:17 +03:00
Michael Shigorin
9c16a9e6ff rescue += boot off sda/sdb
There's no (convenient) "eject" at times, so it's better to provide
extra ways of booting right away.
2012-08-08 20:39:26 +04:00
Michael Shigorin
70793436c7 rescue += openssh
Found myself pretty silly while sittin' at the rescue console
and bein' unable to leave the cool server room for a way
more comfortable armchair and a laptop's keyboard...

(yes, it was that disk array needing GPT tools)
2012-08-08 20:27:59 +04:00
Michael Shigorin
e9fea01685 live tweaks for x11 rescue
New stuff:
* distro/live-icewm -- basic icewm livecd with autologin;
* distro/live-rescue -- yet another gparted^Wrescue CD.

A better part of base+rescue tagged pkglist split off into
extra+rescue where the content belongs.

Thanks ruslandh@ for proposing to do a graphical rescue with some
particular tools (albeit qt4-fsarchiver clearly needs more work).
2011-12-02 17:46:04 +02:00
Michael Shigorin
9cedefdba9 introduced add_feature function
The features might get copy-pasted (or even copied-and-pruned)
when initialized; there's an unneccessary duplication of the
function name in the line adding it to FEATURES list, thus
prone to being forgotten and causing some havoc later on.

It was wrong in the first place but tackling this with some
double-colon rules ran into terminality issues, and further
tortures were considered unneccessary.

The current solution isn't perfect (no completely transparent
function name registration upon corresponding target being called)
but at least it is an improvement...
2011-11-19 11:47:29 +02:00
Michael Shigorin
cf81cc6785 live, rescue, and use tags
It's still very immature -- base lists should be really base,
and functionality should be sorted out in more consistent way.
So far moved to tagged lists (which need some more experimentation
anyways to get both lists and their use more elegant).

- fixed live.iso (now actually useful):
  + extra cleanup was being done (coming from install2 case)
  + root user was password blocked
  + there was no unprivileged user (added "altlinux" w/o password)
  + added xdm setup hook for future X-based livecd flavours
  + several picks for a less slim "base" list
  + xdm login
- tweaked rescue.iso (added ext3grep)
2011-11-04 16:15:30 +02:00
Michael Shigorin
f5a8b89381 stage2 based live subprofiles, updated docs
- introduced generic stage2 subprofile (non-standalone)
- ported installer and rescue over to stage2/{install2,rescue}
- initial stage2/live (needs more work for sure)
- use make-initrd-propagator
- updated and somewhat extended doc/

NB: mind #26133, #26134
2011-11-04 16:15:30 +02:00