Hmm, what do I like about sisela?
The fact that it gives my (otherwise useless) old laptop the chance to connect to my wireless network. I have been using sisela and my old laptop recently to create a wireless<->ethernet bridge so that I can have a hard-wired ethernet link inside my room without the wiring.
Sisela is quite likely one of the most useful floppy-based tools I have ever used simply because it provides instant access to my wireless hardware. Excellent work.
Ryan McCahan
----Original Message Follows---- From: Martin Ling martin-sisela@earth.li Reply-To: sisela@earth.li To: sisela@earth.li Subject: Re: [sisela] Bridge Date: Mon, 21 Jun 2004 14:24:18 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: from the.earth.li ([193.201.200.66]) by mc10-f21.hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.0.2195.6824); Mon, 21 Jun 2004 06:30:17 -0700 Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=the.earth.li)by the.earth.li with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian))id 1BcOnQ-0003UK-00; Mon, 21 Jun 2004 14:25:12 +0100 Received: from martin by the.earth.li with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian))id 1BcOmY-0003QI-00for sisela@earth.li; Mon, 21 Jun 2004 14:24:18 +0100 X-Message-Info: yilqo4+6kc6lOPKSGdQHiDP8OEnHac7G Message-ID: 20040621132418.GM28464@earth.li References: 004d01c45772$5f539d20$7c01a8c0@MMIII102 In-Reply-To: 004d01c45772$5f539d20$7c01a8c0@MMIII102 User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.28i X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.63 (2004-01-11) on the.earth.li X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-4.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=2.63 X-Spam-Level: Errors-To: sisela-admin@earth.li X-BeenThere: sisela@earth.li X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.11 Precedence: bulk List-Help: mailto:sisela-request@earth.li?subject=help List-Post: mailto:sisela@earth.li List-Subscribe: http://www.earth.li/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sisela,mailto:sisela-request@earth.li?subject=subscribe List-Id: discussion of the Sisela networking boot disk <sisela.earth.li> List-Unsubscribe: http://www.earth.li/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sisela,mailto:sisela-request@earth.li?subject=unsubscribe List-Archive: http://www.earth.li/pipermail/sisela/ Return-Path: sisela-admin@earth.li X-OriginalArrivalTime: 21 Jun 2004 13:30:18.0119 (UTC) FILETIME=[E4A73970:01C45793]
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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