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General team docs

• ISO Numbering Scheme

• Release Checklist

Current Cauldron developments

• Development Cauldron ISO generation

• Development API

• Future development ideas and plans

Building an ISO

This section is meant to hold information and links to documents relevant for generating ISOs from scratch.

• List of spells to be cast/installed into the ISO

• List of binaries to include into the ISO initrd

• Steps to take to clean the ISO for release

Current information for 0.10.0

• TODO List

docs

• Cleaning up the basesystem chroot

Open issues

Anything which has been completed somewhere should be moved to the DONE section.

• Man Page

• Possibly put vim on the iso instead of/in addition to elvis? Depends on the size of a minimal vim.

Closed issues

• Printing more useful information in the bash prompt of the guided installer - DONE

• Various FS support seems to be missing from the system tarball even though it's on the ISO. Bring system tarball into sync with the ISO. - DONE

• ndiswrapper is not presently on the iso, but is needed for some users to be able to set up networking. This should be added at least to the system tarball if not also to the iso itself. - DONE See installation notes at Getting ndiswrapper onto the iso for information as to how to do this (it required hacking the spell in order to install inside a chroot).

• Cleaning up/adding to the guided install docs

• Rebooting - do we unmount and eject the cd for the user and then tell them simply to reboot, or do we instruct them to unmount and eject the cd before telling them to reboot? I'm opting for the second choice here personally. - DONE: Currently, the user is instructed to umount the filesystems and then reboot the machine, with a reminder to take out the cd after rebooting.

Old docs

Below is a link to the older documentation for cauldron-related things.

• Old Cauldron Docs