Re: nfs root for boot floppy? or initrd loaded via tftpd?
On Tue, Jul 24, 2001 at 08:47:29PM +1000, Craig Sanders wrote:
>
> BUT...i keep running into limits and obstacles doing it this way -
> e.g. initrd seems to have a 4MB limit with a warning in the kernel
> saying "don't increase this unless you really know what you're doing".
> i haven't researched this yet, so i don't know whether it's a major
> problem. 4MB means that i can have mkfs.xfs, but not the rest of the
> utilities. it also means i can't fit bash (which was going to be one of
> the benefits of doing a network install :).
For this, to have a "good" shell, able of scripting without problems, doing
vi/emacs editing types, completion, history and so on, you can use Public
Domain Korn Shell. Statically compiled against the uClibc, this is only
178ko...
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Thierry LARONDE, Centre de Ressources Informatiques, Archamps - France
http://www.cri74.org/
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