menu items aren't unique enough. After half an hour of head-scratching,
here are the disgusting convolutions required to work around the problem.
Sigh..
Sigh. It's hard to test something that screws up a running system when
it works, so I have to do most of this through the rather laborious process
of making boot floppies! ;-(
that Poul builds the rest of the dists properly. I'll run this over the
XFree86 dist, but the rest will be up to him. Check bindist rule for
the single line to add - it's trivial.
and it doesn't support --unlink. I think it's time to nuke cpio completely
out of the installation process, unless someone can think of a really good
reason to keep it (and don't say multiple volume extraction since we a) don't
use it anywhere anyway, and b) tar supports that too, now).
be callable _after_ installation in 2.1's system admin tools. This is
almost totally revamped now.
2. Support installation from DOS partition or floppy.
3. Many stray bogons eliminated. Perhaps a few introduced. One more
rev should fix this up, once I've spammed my test machine a couple of
times.
4. Installation from CD now *really* possible.
5. Allow user to specify arbitary subdirectories for NFS mountpoints -
UFS, NFS and CD distributions now share many common elements.
