Can anyone tell me how to set up a diskette system for Linux containing
kernel
editor
basic Internet interface ?
Just comfortable enough for doing basic applications.
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by Meaw Ying L » Mon, 29 Dec 1997 04:00:00
Can anyone tell me how to set up a diskette system for Linux containing
kernel
editor
basic Internet interface ?
Just comfortable enough for doing basic applications.
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by Brian McCaule » Wed, 31 Dec 1997 04:00:00
Check out "Yard". See also the Bootdisk-HOWTO.Quote:> Can anyone tell me how to set up a diskette system for Linux containing
> kernel
> editor
> basic Internet interface ?
> Just comfortable enough for doing basic applications.
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1. Challenge: Installing Linux on 4MB System w/o Diskette
I have an old notebook which I am not using anymore so I felt I could as
well install Linux on it and probably find something useful for it.
The problem is, the notebook doesn't have a diskette drive anymore. It
runs Windows 3.1 now and I can attach it to my real machines via TCP/IP
over the serial port.
I have built a 2.0.32 kernel for the notebook which has just the bare
minumum built in. I have installed this kernel together with 'loadlin'
on the notebook and I can boot the kernel, but now, how do I get a valid
root filesystem?
At first I tried to load a ramdisk with the initrd process but this
always failed with out of memory which is obvious with a 4MB system.
Then I mounted a 'rescue' diskette image on my real Linux machine into
the filesystem using the loop device. I created another filesystem as a
UMSDOS filesystem and copied the rescue tree to the UMSDOS filesystem,
did an 'umssync', unmount, mount the UMSDOS filesystem as a FAT
filesystem and then compressed the relevant tree recursively (using zip)
into a file.
I transferred this file over to the notebook and unpacked it to C:\LINUX
and then I did a
c:\loadlin\loadlin c:\loadlin\zimage root=/dev/hda1
This all worked just nice, the kernel finds out that there is an UMSDOS
filesystem on /dev/hda1 and it mounts C:\LINUX as pseudo-root but then
it just stops and doesn not continue initializing the system. I can
still scroll the console, so the machine doesn't completely hang. There
are no error messages logged.
Does anybody have an idea how to pursue from here? Are there any
alternative methods to get a Linux running on a system like this (no
diskette, just 4MB DRAM)?
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