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2003-12-31
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Ok, so the router I had to configure seems to do it's work. I should adjust some of the threshold, because this morning at work I got twenty e-mails from a one hour period telling me the router had switched to ISDN and back.
In any case, it works, so I can be happy, the boss can be happy, and I won't get calls at 5.15 AM. All in all, not bad.
This weekend I started working on converting the Dave/Dina box to Red Hat 7.2. One of the goals would be to allow for re-installs of selected partitions. Right now, the box has two "production" partitions, alpha and omega, and two development partitions, dev1 and dev2.
The idea here is that there will always be at least one working partition which is not touched. New stuff is installed on the other production partition. The first dev partition is used to actually create the RPM's with all of the stuff you need to compile them. The second dev partition is used to try out new stuff all of the time, on top of the current base install.
One of the hassles in the past was that I could not figure out how to put multiple KickStart configuration files in the boot disk. Now that I've figured that out (you have to get the kickstart files inside of the initrd.img file system and give an extra option to the kernel in syslinux.cfg) I've been able to create a boot disk which allows you to do a fresh install of the whole disk, or only re-install one of the partitions.
Now I just have to weed out the package selection (Red Hat 7.2 installs so much these days) and get the post-configuration stuff right. I've also allowed myself the time to make some sort of ASCII "art" as well ;-)
Now I have to reconfigure and recompile the kernel. Can anyone tell me if the sources installed in the kernel-sources package are the redhat-patched versions, or if they get installed as clean kernel sources ? Or is there an easy way to recompile the kernel through the RPM, but with my .config file ?