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Re: [Rule-list] small utility disk
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Devon |
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Re: [Rule-list] small utility disk |
Date: |
Sun, 3 Mar 2002 21:23:58 -0500 |
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On Saturday 02 March 2002 09:21 pm, address@hidden wrote:
> I use a dos boot disk that has fdisk, format, mem, scandisk, and a
> text editor. I would be very interested in a linux disk with the same
> type of functionality. Maybe even additional diagnostics or at least
> hardware reporting.
The boot disk at this point includes about 85 commands, the syslinux
bootloader, and the kernel.
$ ls bin
busybox cp echo hostname mknod pidof sed tar vi
cat cpio false kill more ps sh touch zcat
chgrp date grep ln mount pwd sleep true
chmod dd gunzip ls msh rm stty umount
chown df gzip mkdir mv rmdir sync uname
$ ls usr/bin/
clear du free killall rpm2cpio tee uniq which yes
basename cut env head md5sum sort test uptime whoami
chvt dirname find id reset tail tty wc xargs
$ ls usr/sbin/
chroot
$ ls sbin/
fdisk init lsmod mke2fs modprobe reboot swapoff
halt klogd makedevs mkswap pivot_root rmmod swapon
> This is an ideal companion to any rule install. Use this disk to boot
> and check basic system functionality. Then install rule.
Yes, it doubles quite nicely as a rescue disk. If the installer doesn't
work out, I'm still keeping the bootdisk utility around. :)
> Is it possible to boot from a floppy and then mount a cd reader? This
> would be good if the cd reader didn't boot. I do think a utility boot
> disk needs to be rolled into rule.
No problem at all. The proper devices are already setup in the ram disk.
Just boot and say 'mount /dev/hd? /mnt/cdrom'
> Is there anything I could do to help? Do you plan on posting a disk
> img of this disk?
I will post a disk image, (as well as putting whatever files might be
useful into CVS) but I'd like to finish the install script/program so
that you can install a system from the disk.
Once I have that working, even in some crude fashion, I'll post the image
file.
As for helping, if you can write the C program previously mentioned, or
try building a static binary of cfdisk that will use less than 150k of
space after it's compressed, or....
Then by all means, jump right in! :)
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