Re: Live File System
On Tue, 22 Feb 2000, Ari Makela wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> I'm interested in contributing to the developement of the installation
> of Debian GNU/Linux. When this was discussed in debian-devel I came to
> think that I could work with live file system. A bootable CD with a
> bootable floppy for those systems that cannot boot from a CD. It would
> be a good thing for fixing systems and for installing Debian.
I made up some scripts that will will do this. The scripts make a boot
floppy, and a bootable CD. The boot floppy is a 'large' unsstandard boot
floppy (sect=21 cyl=81). The boot image on the CD is a 2.88 meg boot
image. The boot image is created by copying over the files (/sbin /etc,
/lib, etc) that are needed to boot to single user mode. The root file
system is ram disk, that contains the needed files. After booting
to single user, the user mounts the CD and runs a script that make
symlinks from the ramdisk to the CD, the rest of the /lib files, /sbin
files, /usr files, /etc files and etcera. It also deletes and then link
the original files on the ramdisk, to free up memory in the ram disk. The
user thenexits, and the sytem switches to runlevel 2.
I have not tried my scripts with potato, but they worked fine with 2.1.
I haven't worked on them for 3 or 4 months though. I was able to run
X, emacs, netscape, and such. Although I never tried it, it should work
as an install disk, since it does not use a hard drive, a hard drive
could be formatted, and the CD image copied to the hard drive.
My scripts can be found at http://www.ocslink.com/~blunier/
Mark
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