Re: SEUL: FIPS

[Kevin Forge <forgeltd@pop.netaddress.usa.net>]

Matthew Hirsch wrote:
> 
> One issue that I saw people were writting about in the installation
> was about dealing with a front end to fips.
>         This may sound like a pain but I think that it makes sense.
> 
> The linux community should port FIPS to linux.
> 
> WHAT!?!?!?  WHY?
>         hink that having FIPS run as part of the linux installation
> right before fdisk would make things look much more seamless
> and installation is very simple for people.  Here are 5 floppy disks.
> just boot of the first floppy.  And it just runs.
> 
This can be done without porting fips.  We could have the install boot
DOS, do the config thing being talked about elsewhere then run Loadlin.
all in a bat file that calls external programs.
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