Silent booting in 0.53.15

[Adi Linden]

Hi,

Here is 0.53.15, to be found at

    http://peeweelinux.org/pub/Projects/Embedded

The most noticable changes are a fix to the boot script for a read-only
filesystem when an older project is used.

The boot scripts were modified to be silent if the file "/etc/boot.silent"
exists. At this point this file is not created when "debug=0" is given as
an append option. But it should work fine if it is added as a custome file
like "touch <custom location>/etc/boot.silent". Note that this requires:

    1. A complete PeeWeelinux download (bin or src or iso) - or -
       replacing the old initscripts-1.4-1.i386.rpm with
       initscripts-1.5-1.i386.rpm (can be found at
       http://peeweelinux.org/pub/Projects/Embedded/Embedded_Build/RPMS
    2. Any custom rc.sysinit and/or rcS scripts to be replaced
       with the new scripts.
    3. Don't forget to add "debug=0" and to create "/etc/boot.silent" for
       quiet booting.

An important note: I did not get a chance to test the uploaded release!!!
I tested the changes but there is always a chance of typos when I made the
changes in the real release rather then my test environment!

Also, I will be travelling for the next week. I will check email and
answer questions as I can, but I won't have access to a PeeWeeLinux system
to anything 'hands-on'...


CHANGELOG:
==========
v0.53.*
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 o Compile syslinux for glibc
 o Changes to pwlconfig outlined in scripts/CHANGES.pwlconfig
 o Changed kernel package
   - added functions for pwl_kernel
   - changed netdrivers to an optional package
 o Added cd_install script
 o Added emlog.o kernel module for endless logging
 o Added wget package
 o Combined dev packages into one with less devices
 o Added libpanel.so.4 to libncurses
 o Updated iniscripts
 o Added wireless-isa and minimal example projects
 o Added portfw daemon
 o Added boot.silent option to initscripts

scripts/CHANGES.pwlconfig:
==========================

Tue Nov 14 2000 Adi Linden <adi@adis.on.ca>
- v0.53.15
- pwl_target_functions
    added mount /dev to rc.init for read-only root target
    removed echo "Mounting root read-write..." statement
- initscripts
    added silent boot scripts if /etc/boot.silent is found

Fri Nov 10 2000 Adi Linden <adi@adis.on.ca>
- v0.53.14
- pwl_defaults, pwl_target_functions
    added rd_bp_append variable
    changed parsing of configuration file to increase speed
    added upgrade function for old configuration files


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