Making boot floppies isn’t really the dark art many people imagine it to be. To make modifications, without rebuilding the entire disk from scratch….You’ll want to look at tmp/etc/inittab and check what it does
mount the boot floppy cp /mnt/floppy/rootfs.gz ~/ mkdir tmp gunzip rootfs.gz mount -o loop rootfs tmp make your edits to tmp/... umount tmp gzip -9 rootfs cp rootfs.gz /mnt/floppy umount /mnt/floppy
Of course, the “official” source for this information is the Bootdisk howto
RULE = Run Up to Date Linux Everywhere