[Rule-list] Potential low mem boot disk/installer

[Gordon Buzowetsky]

On Sun, 03 Mar 2002 13:20:24 -0500
Devon <devon at tuxfan.homeip.net> wrote:

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> Hi all,
> I've been working trying to create a small boot disk with the tools 
> needed for a basic install. I think I may _almost_ have it.
> 
> I compiled busybox, fdisk, mke2fs, etc. against uClibc, 
> http://www.uclibc.org/uClibc.html
> and linked statically where possible. (If there is a way to force mke2fs 
> to link statically, I haven't found it. It accepts the -static flag, but 
> creates a dynamically linked executable anyway.) This makes for some very 
> small executables. I have it working now, it boots, allows you to 
> partition, make file systems, make swap, and turn on the swap space. 
> 
> I'm working on a script to use rpm2cpio to force the packages into place 
> without actually using rpm. However, the busybox shell doesn't seem to 
> understand some basic scripting commands. I'm looking for a small shell 
> to include. At present, without attempting to format the floppy for a 
> larger size, I have about 195k space left on the disk.
> 
> Any thoughts or comments on this idea? It won't be as user friendly as 
> anaconda, but it should work in 8M without any difficulty at all.
> 
> I'll try to make a boot image available a little later if I can get the 
> shell working better.
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Would it be possible to include 'cfdisk' if room permits.  I feel it is a far more 'user friendly' format than 'fdisk' and for a newer user easier to navigate than 'fdisk'.   Just my 2 cents....thanks...Gord

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