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Apparently, though unproven, at 00:02 on Thursday 25 November 2010, Grant |
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Edwards did opine thusly: |
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> I need to build a liveCD that boots on as wide a variety of hardware |
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> as is practical. It needs to load one custom kernel module and then |
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> run one console-mode application. Instead of building something from |
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> scratch, I was hoping I might be able to modify an existing liveCD. |
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> There's no need for support for networking, graphics, or even access |
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> to optical or hard drives. |
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> The current version of this CD is built sort of from scrach using a |
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> labor-intensive and error-prone process. However, it does produce |
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> something that's small (less that 10MB), and boots fast (around 10 |
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> seconds). But, updating the existing CD with a newer kernel (to gain |
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> support for newer hardware) is difficult. |
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> I thought about using a customized systemrescuecd, but that takes ages |
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> to boot (almost 5 minutes). This CD is intended as something a |
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> customer can run to do a quick hardware test, and making them sit |
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> there for 5 minutes to see a 5-second test just isn't going to fly. |
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> I also looked at the gentoo minimal install CD, but that's still |
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> pretty slow (3-4 minutes), and it's not at all obvious how to add a |
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> kernel module to it. |
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> Does anybody have an recommendations for a good way to build a small |
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> liveCD with a custom kernel module? |
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damn small linux |
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pretty generic, comes in at under 50M |
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alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com |
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