command line):
- debug1devices: drop into a shell after modules have been load and
device nodes have been created.
- debug1mounts: drop into a shell after file systems have been
mounted.
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error.
* Put the top-level system config on the CD, otherwise root doesn't
get a working login shell on the CD (and the system PATH is broken
as well).
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a "media" file since SCSI CD-ROM drives don't have it (and
supposedly it's going away in IDE too).
* Create the device node automatically from the "dev" file in
/sys/block/$bla.
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the flag "safemode" is specified on the kernel command line, also
disable the hardware scan.
* Option boot.kernelModules to specify a set of modules to be loaded
in stage 2 (in addition to the initrd modules in
boot.initrd.kernelModules).
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installation to prevent horrible accidents.
* Add the kernel parameters to isolinux.cfg.
* Use useradd/groupadd to create users/groups; use Glibc's getent to
check for existence.
* Create the root account properly.
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at boot time into a separate script. This will allow us to change
the configuration without rebooting (provided that the configuration
doesn't have a different kernel, init, etc.).
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to /proc/sys/kernel/hotplug during boot. (FIXME, install hotplug during
install of NixOS)
* /dev/input is created by udev
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controllers (uhci-hcd). This is of course not very elegant: even if a
machine does not have USB, or another USB controller this module will loaded.
A better way would be to let some hardware probing program run first, but
that is "future work"
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This reduces the ramdisk installer size with a few megabytes when gzipped,
but with about 40 MB when unpacked in memory.
There are a few improvements possible:
- strip the binaries. This saves another few MBs.
- only copy the binaries we really need to /bin or /sbin. This could reduce
the size of the installer a lot, especially with util-linux, of which we
don't use that many tools at all.
- try to move some packages we link with glibc right now (like util-linux) to
dietlibc. This will not work for bash, already tried that.
- try to use busybox as a replacement for everything.
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- have mingetty listen on tty2 (but this still fails because of missing /dev/log
- get rid of /init on the targetdrive, solely use /sbin/init (and even that has to go one day)
- use dietlibc statically linked e2fsprogs for the installer. More to come :)
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