"live" fs (Re: Strategy for boot-floppies)
On Wed, Jul 07, 1999 at 09:22:59PM -0500, Mark Blunier wrote:
>
> It should be able to be done on a 1.44 meg boot image, but a 2.88MB floppy
> would be even better. My live cd (http://www.ocslink.com/~blunier/) boots
> off a 1.44MB image, and runs a full distribution off a CD, without using
> the hard drive. One of the reasons I made it was to use it as an install
> disk (besides a cool demo CD). After booting the system, partition the
> hard drive, make a file sytem, mount the file system, then copy the CD to
> the mounted partition, run lilo, and reboot (removing the CD).
I like the idea of a "live" fs (CD or NFS), but... with no swap,
and 4 or 8M already on the ramdisk, wouldn't this leave too
little RAM?
(Ok, you ask, what does one thing have to do with the other?)
Well, the advantage of a "live" fs is to give us room for, for
example, a graphical installation tool. Would it run? What's the
memory footprint of a no-frills X-server, no wm, very simple
GTK+ app? (Or perhaps perl-gtk script if we want to go this way)
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