0.3.4 FLY-0.3.4 is available for download, of course, its at the usual place.

In the spotlight for this version is mostly that almost all device drivers pertaining to SATA, PATA, and SCSI have been built in. This raises the kernel from 1.8mb to 2.4mb and reduced kernel sources from 23mb to 20mb. This should hopefully remove any booting conflicts. Optical drivers must be compiled in the kernel for the drive to be detected because the kernel doesnt have access to it's modules in the initramfs.

So thats the most significant change.

The other changes include tweaking the boot process to run hwsetup (which it didnt before because I had removed it since hwsetup was broken, but when I fixed it in 0.3.2 I forgot to re-include it in the boot process). Does it do anything noticeable? You tell me! From VMware, I didnt notice much that was different. I was semi-hoping it would solve the issues with Xorg but it didnt. Oh well.

Init... I modified it AGAIN! This time, if no driver can be loaded for the optical drive, rather than giving a complete lspci output, it'll only give the line pertinent to your IDE driver. That should eliminate a lot of screen clutter and confusion.

The final change comes as a result of me severely nuking my host system's Portage records. The contents of /var/cache and /var/db contain information on currently installed packages. Up until now I always deleted the contents of those directories in FLY. And rightfully. Frees up a bit of space, and since FLY is static (ie: you cant modify it because of the read-only properties of the disk) you wont be using Portage. Im assuming eventually FLY will have a hard drive install option to it. The first step I took now is to.. rather than delete the contents of /var/cache and /var/db, I've moved them. The directories have been left blank, and entries in /etc/fstab made so that eventually, you'll be able to simply just mount them in the same way that you can mount /root/CS.FLY Because there is no need for these directories yet, the mount points on the server side dont exist yet.
Devlog
0.3.4
Modified /etc/init.d/mkxf86config
Modified /boot/initramfs/init
Modified /etc/fstab
Added eix
Moved contents of /var/db and /var/cache to CS.CIFS mount on CS server
        The contents of these directories would only be required during a
        HDD install, so do not need to be available on the LiveCD, but would
        be needed if ever a HDD install becomes available.  Modified
        /etc/fstab to add noauto mount points.
Updated the following ebuilds:
        app-arch/tar-1.20 from 1.19-rc1
        media-video/mplayer-1.0_rc2_p26753-r1 from 1.0_rc2_p26753
Built in kernel support for:
        AC adapter
        battery
        button
        fan
        dock
        removable drive bay
        processor
        thermal zone
        Include IDE/ATA-2 disk support
        OPTi 82C621 chipset enhanced support
        RZ1000 chipset bugfix/support
        AEC62XX chipset support
        ALI M15x3 chipset support
        ATI IXP chipset IDE support
        CMD64{3|6|8|9} chipset support
        Compaq Triflex IDE support
        CY82C693 chipset support
        Cyrix/National Semiconductor CS5530 MediaGX chipset support
        AMD CS5535 chipset support
        HPT34X chipset support
        HPT36X/37X chipset support
        JMicron JMB36x support
        National SCx200 chipset support
        Intel PIIXn chipsets support
        IT8213 IDE support
        IT821X IDE support
        NS87415 chipset support
        PROMISE PDC202{46|62|65|67} support
        PROMISE PDC202{68|69|70|71|75|76|77} support
        ServerWorks OSB4/CSB5/CSB6 chipsets support
        Silicon Image chipset support
        SiS5513 chipset support
        SLC90E66 chipset support
        Tekram TRM290 chipset support
        VIA82CXXX chipset support
        Toshiba TC86C001 support
        iSCSI Initiator over TCP/IP
        3ware 5/6/7/8xxx ATA-RAID support
        3ware 9xxx SATA-RAID support
        ACARD SCSI support
        Adaptec AACRAID support
        Adaptec AIC7xxx Fast -> U160 support (New Driver)
        Adaptec AIC79xx U320 support
        Adaptec I2O RAID support
        AdvanSys SCSI support
        ARECA (ARC11xx/12xx/13xx/16xx) SATA/SAS RAID Host Adapter
        LSI Logic New Generation RAID Device Drivers
        LSI Logic Management Module (New Driver)
        LSI Logic MegaRAID Driver (New Driver)
        LSI Logic Legacy MegaRAID Driver
        LSI Logic MegaRAID SAS RAID Module
        HighPoint RocketRAID 3xxx Controller support
        BusLogic SCSI support
        Future Domain 16xx SCSI/AHA-2920A support
        Intel/ICP (former GDT SCSI Disk Array) RAID Controller support
        IBM ServeRAID support
        Initio 9100U(W) support
        Initio INI-A100U2W support
        Promise SuperTrak EX Series support
        SYM53C8XX Version 2 SCSI support
        IBM Power Linux RAID adapter support
        Qlogic QLA 1240/1x80/1x160 SCSI support
        QLogic QLA2XXX Fibre Channel Support
        QLogic ISP4XXX host adapter family support
        Emulex LightPulse Fibre Channel Support
        Tekram DC395(U/UW/F) and DC315(U) SCSI support
        Tekram DC390(T) and Am53/79C974 SCSI support
        Workbit NinjaSCSI-32Bi/UDE support
        SCSI debugging host simulator
        SCSI RDMA Protocol helper library
        AHCI SATA support
        ServerWorks Frodo / Apple K2 SATA support
        Pacific Digital ADMA support
        Pacific Digital SATA QStor support
        Promise SATA TX2/TX4 support
        Promise SATA SX4 support
        Silicon Image SATA support
        Silicon Image 3124/3132 SATA support
        SiS 964/965/966/180 SATA support
        ULi Electronics SATA support
        VIA SATA support
        VITESSE VSC-7174 / INTEL 31244 SATA support
        IEEE 1394 support
Removed kernel support for:
  General setup
        Auditing support
        Kernel->user space relay support (formerly relayfs)
  Enable the block layer
        Support for tracing block io actions
  Processor type and features
        check for P4 thermal throttling�interrupt.
        Math emulation
        kexec system call
        build a relocatable kernel
  Power management options
        power management debug support
        CPU frequency scaling
                enable CPUfreq debugging
                VIA C7 enhanced PowerSaver
                /proc/acpi/processor/../performance interface
        ACPI support
                debug statements
  Networking
        Networking options
                IP: kernel level autoconfiguration
                IP: ARP deamon support
                TCP: advanced congestion control
                TCP: MD5 Signature option support (RFC2385)
                Security marking
        Wireless
                Enable debugging output
                Enable full debugging output
                Enable full debugging output
  Device Drivers
        Misc devices
                Sensable PHANToM
                Verbose debug mode
        ATA/ATAPI/MFM/RLL support
                Suppport for SATA
                Use old disk-only driver on primary interface
                Use multiple sector mode for Programmed Input/Output by default
                HPT34X AUTODMA support
        SCSI device support
                Probe all LUNs on each SCSI device
                Verbose SCSI error reporting
                PCMCIA SCSI adapter support
                SCSI low-level drivers
                        Compile in debugging code
                        decode registers during diagnostics
                        Compile in debugging code
                        decode registers during diagnostics
                        Compile in debug mode
                        enable driver internal trace
                        enable adapter dump support
        IEEE 1394 support
                IEEE 1394 (FireWire) support - alternative stack
                Excessive debugging output
        Character devices
                Hardware Random Number Generator Core support
                Enhanced Real Time Clock Support
                Console display driver support
                        Map the console to the primary display device