Re: ELF floppy set progress report
> With the upload of "netbase", all of the packages needed to install
> the system are now available in ELF form.
Great. I look forward to trying out the new install disks.
> There is only one package that I need to compile in a special manner.
> e2fsutils compiles fsck.ext2 as a static executable. I have to rebuild
> it to use shared libraries to make it fit on the floppy. I think the normal
> installed version of fsck.ext2 should be shared as well, but I suppose
> not everyone agrees with me.
I'm a little uncomfortable about it, but there are enough other single
points of failure that it probably doesn't matter one way or the other.
> I have the ELF root floppy running and am working on supporting
> Ethernet so that a two-floppy-plus-ethernet install is possible. Once
> that works I can try including PPP and SLIP, though this might wait
> until after 1.1 . Rather than install both "pppd" and "dip" on the
> floppy, is there a version of "pppd" that can set up a SLIP connection?
> Or is there a tiny SLIP client that can use "chat"?
It's not tiny, but diald can use chat and is 10k smaller than dip.
> The installation floppies can also be used as a rescue floppy. Most of
> the basic file management tools are there, some of them because I wrote
> "tiny" versions.
Excellent! This is something I've wanted for a long time, but have
been too lazy to build my own rescue disks. I've been lucky a couple
of times that I've left an unused RedHat installed on a spare
partition.
David
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