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i'm spent sometime developing a boot-floppy-generating script but seem to have |
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hit some roadblocks ... |
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(1) i cant seem to get vmware to like the 1 disk version of a boot floppy ... |
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(2) i cant seem to find any floppy disks that arent corrupted :) |
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(3) i cant seem to figure out how to make 2.6.x *not* zero out a ramdisk after |
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umounting it ... wasnt a prob in 2.4.x, but now it's a show stopper for me :/ |
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so i think i'll release the scripts i have in order to get feedback from ppl |
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who may have done this kind of thing before ... i myself have never made a |
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bootable floppy before, this would be my first attempt :) |
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lets jump to it, the code: http://wh0rd.org/gentoo/boot-floppy/ ... |
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next, ill give some info on it ... |
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the script requires you have uclibc installed. what is uclibc you ask ? just |
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goto http://www.uclibc.org/ ... basically it is a much smaller replacement |
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for glibc ... smaller is better because we can get more stuff onto the |
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floppy. the script builds a floppy disk image with these packages (all |
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compiled with uclibc): busybox, tinylogin, udhcp, e2fsprogs. i basically got |
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a working root system put together and wanted to get the floppy generation |
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process down before adding more stuff. |
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so ! heres what i need ! |
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(1) feedback on what you think should be better |
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(2) feedback on how to make a working floppy image (without using a floppy |
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drive) ... utilizing a boot loader like grub is ok, but i wish i could get |
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the dealie down where the first hundred blocks the kernel occupies while the |
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rest of the disk is the rootfs ... and the kern just loads it for you ... |
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- -mike |
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