Posted by: farrelljmcgovern
on January 03, 2005 08:09 PM
Well, thanks for the complement on the article!
As for the installer, the company claims that the software is literally "patent pending", but in reality, there are many tools out there in the FOSS collective software archive that are as good, or better, and you don't have to worry about any potential patents.
In general, though, there is not much to the installer. It basically packages up the currently running system, splits the archives between however many CDs are needed, and has it's own set of install scripts on the bootable CD to install it on a computer. You could do as the College Linux people do; take the current Slackware install, and simply modify the install CD by adding a new package in to one of the install directories, or replacing an existing package, either new package would include all the software, files and existing files you delete that you add to/remove from the standard Slackware install. You could also do this with either Red Hat or Debian using their respective package system and building packages for them, but not as easily, IMOHO, of course.
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Re:Excellent but limited article
Posted by: farrelljmcgovern on January 03, 2005 08:09 PMAs for the installer, the company claims that the software is literally "patent pending", but in reality, there are many tools out there in the FOSS collective software archive that are as good, or better, and you don't have to worry about any potential patents.
In general, though, there is not much to the installer. It basically packages up the currently running system, splits the archives between however many CDs are needed, and has it's own set of install scripts on the bootable CD to install it on a computer. You could do as the College Linux people do; take the current Slackware install, and simply modify the install CD by adding a new package in to one of the install directories, or replacing an existing package, either new package would include all the software, files and existing files you delete that you add to/remove from the standard Slackware install. You could also do this with either Red Hat or Debian using their respective package system and building packages for them, but not as easily, IMOHO, of course.
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Farrell J. McGovern
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