[plug] Floppy based Mini-Distro's

[Jay Turner]

> On Behalf Of Brad Campbell
> Sent: Saturday, 12 June 2004 2:38 AM
>
>
> Want some real fun, and a great way to learn a bit more depth
> about linux in general?
> Build your own from scratch.
>
If only I had enough time to have fun!
I have already wasted more than enough time on this little 'project'.
I could have sat down and manually written out the 'dd' instructions
that my manager would have to use about 20 time by now.
But there is absolutely no fun in that... And my script didn't 'need'
to print out dots every 60secs, but it was something else for me to add
and i have learned about sub-shells and 'while :' in the process! (no pun
intended)

>
> Use a 2.4 kernel
> http://www.uclibc.org
> http://www.busybox.net
>
> Then go to town. Busybox contains almost everything you need for
> a basic rescue disk now. Combine
> that with e2fs tools and other tools of your choice, then spend
> 100's of hours learning how to put
> it all together and optimise it to get it onto a 1.44 floppy
> along with the kernel.

> I now have a shell script that compiles up all my stuff for me,
> compresses it all up and creates the
> image, then puts it on a floppy. If your interested I put it here
> : http://www.wasp.net.au/~brad/e

I will try and take a look, thanks for making it available.