I don't normally repost, but this is pretty exciting. The
cAos project -- see http://www/caosity.org/ -- with which I
have been working since its inception back in the Spring of
this year, has just had its first complete install, using a
new, one floppy network based installer.
cAos is an RPM-based distribution, using yum, rpm, busybox,
and the wealth of SRPM - source RPM -- content, from Red Hat,
and others, including, Owl River archive elements. Large
parts are based on RHEL-3, and several additional parts are
even more recent packagings. It is free of all Red Hat images
and logos upon which RH has asserted trademark and copyright
protection publicly.
I had previously demonstrated a RHL-8 based 'Knoppix' like
bootable CD version four months ago. The binaries are built
within a clean chroot, restored to a native, known and clean
state before each build.
I would encourage members of the group to 'give it a go'.
-- Russ Herrold
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Date: Sun, 30 Nov 2003 22:44:50 -0500 (EST)
From: R P Herrold <herrold@owlriver.com>
Reply-To: caos@caosity.org
To: cAos mailing list <caos@runlevelzero.net>
Subject: cAos] announcement of caos GP-1 install success
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Feel free to repost.
I have completed a running install of caos GP-1 using the
'cinch' single floppy image based installer.
[root@dhcp220 root]# cat /etc/caos-release
cAos GP 1 (GP)
The installer is just smart enough to use busybox, and start
a dhcp client and set a resolver. It also can retrieve a stage
two install image across the internet, and from there,
transfer a minimal install to a hard drive.
It has enough tools to partition, and format, and makeswap,
and set up a proper /etc/fstab and so forth.
- From there, there is a working 'yum' configuration, and
additional packages may be pulled; I am really thrilled with
this.
A cinch-README.txt exists at:
ftp://ftp.owlriver.com:/pub/local/ORC/buildfarm/cinch-README.txt
After that, I have additionally built several packages which
are not yet in the master archive.
ftp://ftp.owlriver.com/pub/local/ORC/caos-addons/
with the following archive contents:
[herrold@dhcp220 herrold]$ for i in `find -name '*rpm' `; do
echo -n ` ls -l $i | awk {'print $5'}` ; echo -n " " ;
basename $i ; done
94431 aterm-0.4.2-1.i386.rpm
1577 aterm-debuginfo-0.4.2-1.i386.rpm
156054 sudo-1.6.7p5-1.i386.rpm
4075 sudo-debuginfo-1.6.7p5-1.i386.rpm
188341 sweep-1.07-4.i386.rpm
1532 sweep-debuginfo-1.07-4.i386.rpm
172715 imlib2-1.1.0-1.i386.rpm
141798 imlib2-devel-1.1.0-1.i386.rpm
17643 imlib2-filters-1.1.0-1.i386.rpm
9435 imlib2-loader_jpeg-1.1.0-1.i386.rpm
10515 imlib2-loader_png-1.1.0-1.i386.rpm
7151 imlib2-loader_argb-1.1.0-1.i386.rpm
11214 imlib2-loader_bmp-1.1.0-1.i386.rpm
7900 imlib2-loader_gif-1.1.0-1.i386.rpm
12102 imlib2-loader_pnm-1.1.0-1.i386.rpm
9278 imlib2-loader_tga-1.1.0-1.i386.rpm
10021 imlib2-loader_tiff-1.1.0-1.i386.rpm
12098 imlib2-loader_xpm-1.1.0-1.i386.rpm
6889 imlib2-loader_gzbz2-1.1.0-1.i386.rpm
415628 imlib2-debuginfo-1.1.0-1.i386.rpm
212115 libast-0.6-0.2.i386.rpm
70618 libast-debuginfo-0.6-0.2.i386.rpm
1193468 Eterm-0.9.2-4.i386.rpm
226302 Eterm-debuginfo-0.9.2-4.i386.rpm
315296 aterm-0.4.2-1.src.rpm
357048 sudo-1.6.7p5-1.src.rpm
10297 sweep-1.07-4.src.rpm
840154 imlib2-1.1.0-1.src.rpm
309935 libast-0.6-0.2.src.rpm
1086248 Eterm-0.9.2-4.src.rpm
[herrold@dhcp220 herrold]$
These packages are not part of the GP-1 core, and demonstrate
a good build capability -- plain-jane SRPM's which build on
RHL=9 build on caos GP-1 just fine without intervention, as a
non-root user.
The running packages present are:
[herrold@dhcp220 herrold]$ rpm -qa --qf
'%{name}\t%{version}-%{release}\n' | sort
Eterm 0.9.2-4
Glide3 20010520-25
SysVinit 2.78-19
XFree86 4.3.0-2
XFree86-Mesa-libGL 4.3.0-2
XFree86-base-fonts 4.3.0-2
XFree86-devel 4.3.0-2
XFree86-font-utils 4.3.0-2
XFree86-libs 4.3.0-2
XFree86-libs-data 4.3.0-2
XFree86-xauth 4.3.0-2
XFree86-xfs 4.3.0-2
aterm 0.4.2-1
autoconf 2.57-3
automake 1.6.3-5
basesystem 7.0-2
bash 2.05b-20
binutils 2.14.90.0.7-2.caos
bzip2-libs 1.0.2-8
caos-release 1-5
chkconfig 1.3.5-3
chkfontpath 1.9.5-2
coreutils 4.5.3-26
cpio 2.5-3
cpp 2.96-119.caos
cracklib 2.7-12
cracklib-dicts 2.7-12
cyrus-sasl 2.1.15-4.caos
cyrus-sasl-md5 2.1.15-4.caos
db4 4.0.14-23.caos
dev 3.3-1
dhclient 3.0pl1-23
diffutils 2.7.2-2
e2fsprogs 1.26-1.72
elfutils 0.76-3.caos
elfutils-libelf 0.76-3.caos
expat 1.95.5-2
file 3.39-8.7x
filesystem 2.1.6-2
findutils 4.1.7-1
fontconfig 2.2.1-6.0
fontconfig-devel 2.2.1-6.0
freetype 2.1.3-6
freetype-devel 2.1.3-6
gawk 3.1.0-3
gcc 2.96-119.caos
gcc-c++ 2.96-119.caos
gdbm 1.8.0-11
glib 1.2.10-6.caos
glib2 2.2.3-1.caos
glibc 2.2.4-32.8
glibc-common 2.2.4-32.8
glibc-devel 2.2.4-32.8
glibc-kernheaders 2.4-8.10
gpm 1.19.3-20
grep 2.4.2-7
groff 1.18.1-29
grub 0.93-4
gzip 1.3-15
imlib2 1.1.0-1
imlib2-devel 1.1.0-1
imlib2-loader_argb 1.1.0-1
imlib2-loader_jpeg 1.1.0-1
imlib2-loader_png 1.1.0-1
info 4.3-5
initscripts 6.78.1-1.1.caos1
iproute 2.2.4-14
iputils 20001110-6.AS21.2
joe 2.9.7-12
krb5-libs 1.2.7-19
kudzu 0.99.36-4.caos
less 378-7
libacl 2.2.3-1
libast 0.6-0.2
libattr 2.2.0-1
libjpeg 6b-16
libjpeg-devel 6b-16
libpng 1.2.2-16
libpng-devel 1.2.2-16
libstdc++ 2.96-119.caos
libstdc++-devel 2.96-119.caos
libtermcap 2.0.8-28
libtiff 3.5.5-13
libtiff-devel 3.5.5-13
libungif 4.1.0-15
libungif-devel 4.1.0-15
libuser 0.51.7-2.caos
libxml2 2.5.4-1
libxml2-python 2.5.4-1
linux 2.4.21-7.caos
logrotate 3.5.9-1
losetup 2.11y-31.1
lvm 1.0.3-12
lynx 2.8.5-12.caos
m4 1.4.1-13
make 3.79.1-17
man 1.5k-6
mingetty 0.9.4-18
mkinitrd 3.4.44-1.caos
mktemp 1.5-11
modutils 2.4.26-1
mount 2.11y-31.1
ncftp 3.1.5-4
ncurses 5.3-6.caos
net-tools 1.60-3
newt 0.51.4-2.caos
openldap 2.0.27-8
openssh 3.7.1p2-1.caos
openssh-clients 3.7.1p2-1.caos
openssh-server 3.7.1p2-1.caos
openssl 0.9.6b-32.7
openssl-devel 0.9.6b-32.7
pam 0.75-48
pam-devel 0.75-48
passwd 0.68-3
patch 2.5.4-16
pciutils 2.1.8-25
perl 5.8.0-90.caos
perl-CGI 2.81-90.caos
perl-Filter 1.29-3
pkgconfig 0.14.0-3
popt 1.7.1-6.caos
procps 2.0.7-11
psmisc 20.1-2
python 2.2.3-1
rpm 4.1.1-6.caos
rpm-build 4.1.1-6.caos
rpm-python 4.1.1-6.caos
sed 3.02-10
setup 2.5.7-1
shadow-utils 4.0.3-6
slang 1.4.4-4
slocate 2.6-8
strace 4.4.95-2
sudo 1.6.7p5-1
sweep 1.07-4
sysklogd 1.4.1-4
tar 1.13.25-4.caos
termcap 11.0.1-10
ttmkfdir 3.0.9-1
utempter 0.5.2-6
util-linux 2.11y-31.1
vim-common 6.0-7.15
vim-minimal 6.0-7.15
which 2.12-3
words 2-17
xinitrc 3.32-2.caos
yum 2.0.4-1
zlib 1.1.4-8.2.1AS
zlib-devel 1.1.4-8.2.1AS
[herrold@dhcp220 herrold]$
Notice the absence of anaconda-images and redhat-logos
I installed on an old 2.2G drive -- size looks like this:
[root@dhcp220 root]# df
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use%
Mounted on
/dev/hda3 1692608 443864 1162764 28% /
/dev/hda1 95139 1814 88413 3% /boot
none 516964 0 516964 0% /dev/shm
[root@dhcp220 root]# uname -a
Linux dhcp220 2.4.21-7.caos #1 Wed Nov 26 14:59:54 EST 2003
i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
[root@dhcp220 root]# w
10:38pm up 2:51, 5 users, load average: 0.01, 0.01, 0.00
USER TTY FROM LOGIN@ IDLE JCPU PCPU WHAT
root tty1 - 7:48pm 2:48m 0.02s 0.02s -bash
root tty2 - 7:49pm 2:49m 0.04s 0.04s -bash
root pts/0 10.16.33.101 7:56pm 0.00s 0.20s 0.01s w
herrold pts/1 10.16.33.101 9:55pm 7.00s 0.21s 0.21s -bash
herrold pts/2 10.16.33.101 10:16pm 21:16 0.04s 0.04s -bash
[root@dhcp220 root]#
- -- Russ Herrold
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