[RULE] Boot-floppy detect.

[Michael Fratoni]

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On Wednesday 22 January 2003 03:57 pm, M. Fioretti wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 22, 2003 02:13:20 at 02:13:20AM -0500, Fratoni Michael 
> > You'd need about 800k of space available (share and sbin, above).
> > However, there are probably plenty of ways it could still be made
> > useful. Let me know if you're interested.
>
> I have never heard of detect before, and am really sleepy tonight, so
> maybe is a stupid idea, but couldn't this "hw detection toolkit" stay
> in two floppies? Would it be acceptable? Something like:

It could be on two floppies, but that adds unneeded complexity.

Much easier if the user could just boot and shutdown with no 
interaction....

Having had some time to consider this, and work through various 
possibilities, I had an idea.

So, without further delay:
I'm announcing slinky-detect(version-0.0.1), the bootable hardware 
detection boot disk. ;)

http://www.tuxfan.homeip.net:8080/rule/slinky/slinky-detect/slinky-detect.img

Create a bootable floppy:
dd if=slinky-detect.img of=/dev/fd0 bs=1440k

Boot from it, the system starts, runs detect, and writes the output to the 
boot floppy (as report.txt). The system can then be powered down, as no 
disks are mounted. Overall startup to shutdown should be about 1 or 2 
minutes. (We are booting from a floppy, after all.)

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pgp key:  http://www.tuxfan.homeip.net:8080/gpgkey.txt
Red Hat Linux 7.{2,3}|8.0 in 8M of RAM: http://www.rule-project.org/
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