Darxus on Sun, 16 Jan 2000 12:39:22 -0500 (EST) |
On Sun, 16 Jan 2000, Bill Jonas wrote: > > Do any of you know any more info that might be helpful ? Wanna help me > > make it happen ? > > Sure. What did you have in mind? It seems to me, though, that it'd need to > be at least two floppies (think boot disk and root disk). ls -s1 `which cdparanoia notlame wvdial ripit` 32 /usr/bin/cdparanoia 76 /usr/bin/wvdial 184 /usr/local/bin/notlame 16 /usr/local/bin/ripit I just added wvdial to my list because it'd be nice to be able to dial into the internet to get cd & track titles. ripit's a perl frontend that does cddb. The numbers are kilobytes per file. That's a total of 308k. I think the *only* other thing we need is the kernel & its modules. this is the contents of a debian rescue disk: /mnt/floppy# ls -s1 total 1403 1 debian.txt 1 f1.txt 1 f10.txt 0 f2.txt 1 f3.txt 1 f4.txt 1 f5.txt 1 f9.txt 1 install.sh 5 ldlinux.sys 688 linux 0 rdev.sh 1 readme.txt 696 root.bin 1 syslinux.cfg 0 type.txt (mounted via "mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy") linux is the kernel, root.bin is, I believe, the compressed filesystem, to be loaded onto a ramdisk. Compressed it's over twice the size I need. Should be no problem, and I should be able to add things like "ls" :) Well, I'm gonna go bury my nose in the Bootdisk-HOWTO. __________________________________________________________________ PGP fingerprint = 03 5B 9B A0 16 33 91 2F A5 77 BC EE 43 71 98 D4 darxus@op.net / http://www.op.net/~darxus Find the next largest prime, be famous: http://www.mersenne.org/prime.htm "There is no spoon." ______________________________________________________________________ Philadelphia Linux Users Group - http://plug.nothinbut.net Announcements - http://lists.nothinbut.net/mail/listinfo/plug-announce General Discussion - http://lists.nothinbut.net/mail/listinfo/plug
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