Re: Finnix, and mastering optimization
On Tuesday 25 October 2005 14:45, Ryan Finnie wrote:
> I said I'd announce my project here, and here it is: Finnix
> (http://www.finnix.org/) version 86.0 has been released. Finnix is a
> small (<100MB) LiveCD with a focus on system administration; it includes
> many packages not found in Knoppix, such as LVM2 and cryptsetup, but no
> X or productivity tools. It uses Debian testing as a base, unionfs, and
> squashfs as the loopback filesystem. The initrd and rcS scripts are
> based on Knoppix, but diverged a decent amount. Because of those
> differences, I don't consider Finnix a "remaster" project, but I'm
> grateful for the existing code to be based off :). Below is the
> sourceforge announcement, but I thought I'd talk about sorting/ordering
> first.
>
> Klaus posted earlier his code for generating a list of files to be used
> with -sort on mkisofs. I think I've improved upon that a bit. To start
> out, temporarily replace the autoconfig script with a script that starts
> an strace (capturing open, stat64 and execve), then calls the original
> autoconfig script. I have an example script on the Finnix CD in
> /etc/init.d/finnix-autoconfig-strace. Build the CD, and boot it. Then
> I use a perl script on the running machine against the strace output
> (it's done on the running machine because it checks for files that are
> deleted before the end, such as /etc/mtab~). The script is available at
> http://www.finnix.org/files/strace-reorder . The script uses a simple
> weight based on when the file was first looked at, and how many times
> it's accessed after that (some math geeks could probably improve it by
> averaging out access positions based on other file accesses, so each CD
> seek could travel the least amount of distance necessary, etc). Then
> the result is fed to mkisofs (or in my case mksquashfs) and a final
> build is done.
>
> Let me know if you have any ideas for improvement. Thanks!
>
> RF
>
> --
> Finnix 86.0 Released
> http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=505408
>
> Nearly 6 years ago, Finnix 0.03 made history as one of the first
> bootable CD Linux distributions. It may have taken awhile, but Finnix is
> back as a small (less than 100MB), fully-featured LiveCD for system
> administrators.
>
> Finnix 86.0 includes 336 Debian packages, Linux kernel 2.6.13, and
> advanced system utilities such as LVM2. You can mount and manipulate
> hard drives and partitions, monitor networks, rebuild boot records,
> install other operating systems, and much more. Finnix can be run in as
> little as 32MB RAM, but if you have at least 192MB RAM, you can run the
> entire distribution from a ramdisk, saving access time during use, at
> the expense of a small wait during boot while the CD is copied to RAM
> (this wait is negligible due to the distribution's small size).
>
> Most importantly, Finnix can be burned to a "Mini-CDR", which, as a
> fashion statement, goes great with your laptop bag or pocket.
>
> Please visit http://www.finnix.org/ to learn more or download a copy!
Hey Ryan!
I tried:
deb@dhcppc0:~$ proz
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/finnix/finnix-86.0.iso?download
deb@dhcppc0:~$ proz
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/finnix/finnix-86.0-pre3.iso?download
deb@dhcppc0:~$
But:
Error connecting to prdownloads.sourceforge.net
Unable to resolve prdownloads.sourceforge.net
Press any key to exit..
:)
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m k h _ s g n
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