I like sisela for its ease of use, simplicity, that it supports wifi so easily, that it auto detects the networking hardware, and that it uses a 2.4 kernel with iptables - so many others use ip chains. The only thing that I havent been successful in is getting it to control my ppoe adsl connection... A
Martin Ling said:
On Mon, Jun 21, 2004 at 11:30:20AM +0200, Mikael ?sth wrote:
Im new to this list(and fairly newbie at linux). Is there a way to install sisela to the harddrive of a notebook for example. Would be nice to add some other packages for statistic and so on.
There isn't currently a way to install Sisela to a hard drive. If someone really wanted to do it I'd suggest starting from the source package, adding the necessary IDE/SCSI support to the kernel configuration, and then putting the whole FAT & SYSLINUX setup on a hard disk partition instead of a floppy.
But *why*? There are literally hundreds of other Linux distributions designed to install to hard drives, including dozens designed for similar purposes as Sisela.
You *can't* add any extra packages to an installed Sisela setup. Everything's built together so that unnecessary library code can be taken out to save space.
The point of this project was to make the most capable networking system that could possibly fit on a floppy. Now people keep asking for it to do something else, when there are plenty of alternatives - mostly with more maintenance than one busy student.
What do people like so much about Sisela?
Martin
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