[128] in SIPB_Linux_Development
quiche:/dev/sda2
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (yandros@athena.mit.edu)
Fri Aug 27 03:21:48 1993
From: yandros@athena.mit.edu
Date: Fri, 27 Aug 1993 03:21:21 -0400
To: linux-dev@athena.mit.edu
Cc: sipb-afsreq@athena.mit.edu
I just backed up quiche's default linux partition to
/mnt/msdos/quiche.tgz and then ftp'd the 47M file into my homedir and
into /afs/sipb/project/office-machines/quiche/backups/u1-930827.tgz
(the translator choked on the file, unsurprisingly) temporarily
(until we deal with the tape drive on quiche).
afsreq types: office-machines.quiche--50000--rosebud:/vicepb
This is in preparation for possibly reinstalling quiche with {a new
SLS,a new MCC, NetBSD, Plan 9,OS/2 2.1, Unicos7, whatever} if we
decide to do it sometime soon. I did NOT back up /u3 (the second
partition) because it didn't look like it had anything on it that
needed backing up.
There's been the suggestion that we simply install whatever new
thing(s) we decide to install on the second partition; I'm certainly
open to suggestions. For now, I'd really really really like to see if
we can't push together at least a minimal SAL (Sipb Athena Linux :)
package to give to people. Mark Eichin estimates about a week of
playing to get everything rebuilt cleanly; I think between us we can
get it working.
High-level, resolve-me-now questios:
o what install base do we want?
o how are we going to organize the thigns we add?
o how to package the pieces?
o how are we going to distribute it?
Personal suggestions:
- MCC or SLS?
- /usr/sal/* :-)
- in a huge glob; let 'em remove what they don't want (at least for
now. :-/ )
- disk images of [MCC|SLS] as now, plus extra packages users could
snarf across the net or from a floppy. If Greg's msods2linux-n-dos
stuff is done, great; I think it should be a seperate thing at this
stage, though.
Comments!!
(that's right, `!'s and not `?'s. This is not a request. :-)
chad
