Re: [Leaf-devel] Linux 2.4.16

2001-12-31 Thread Ewald Wasscher
David Douthitt wrote: Second question: I STILL can't get 2.4.16 under 500k in size - I can't even get it under 600k - even compressed. Even though I strip practically everything out. Why is that? Do I really have to give up over 100k of floppy space to the Linux kernel? Do you care to share

Re: [Leaf-devel] Linux 2.4.16

2001-12-31 Thread David Douthitt
On 12/31/01 at 5:42 PM, Ewald Wasscher [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: David Douthitt wrote: Second question: I STILL can't get 2.4.16 under 500k in size - I can't even get it under 600k - even compressed. Even though I strip practically everything out. Why is that? Do I really have to give

RE: [Leaf-devel] Linux 2.4.16

2001-12-31 Thread Andrew Hoying
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of David Douthitt Sent: Sunday, December 30, 2001 11:39 PM To: LEAF Development Subject: Re: [Leaf-devel] Linux 2.4.16 -- snip -- Second question: I STILL can't get 2.4.16 under 500k in size

[Leaf-devel] linux 2.4.16

2001-12-31 Thread Eric Wolzak
Hello David Ewald and all others on the list. Jacques Nilo has a 2.4.16 (unpatched) kernel on /leaf.sf.net/devel/jnilo/kernel-2.4.16/ The configuration files are there too. We are working on a pppoe disk based on this kernel. greetings and a happy new year to all of you Eric Wolzak

[Leaf-devel] Linux 2.4.16

2001-12-31 Thread David Douthitt
I noticed several differences (perhaps others will find more). I had much less in my kernel, but perhaps bigger things Compared to the version the Jacques had, my compilation did NOT have: * EISA support * Hot Pluggable Device support * PCMCIA * QoS * 1000Mbit * Wireless LAN * Token Ring *

[Leaf-devel] Linux 2.4.16

2001-12-30 Thread David Douthitt
I'm trying to set up Linux 2.4.16 with the Linux Progress Patch (LPP) on my desktop before I try it on a floppy... The system has been trouble Even though this system came with 2.4.3, it still won't boot right with 2.4.16 and LPP. First it came up and said that /dev/hda7 had no superblock

Re: [Leaf-devel] Linux 2.4.16

2001-12-30 Thread David Douthitt
On 12/30/01 at 4:23 PM, David Douthitt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm trying to set up Linux 2.4.16 with the Linux Progress Patch (LPP) on my desktop before I try it on a floppy... Now when the system boots, I get the nice boot screen (from LPP) and all works until init starts - which messes

Re: [Leaf-devel] Linux 2.4.16 and LEAF

2001-12-05 Thread Charles Steinkuehler
If I understand right, the steps are: 1. Create and compile a kernel of your choice. 2. Create a Minix file system and populate it with the contents of root.lrp 3. Compress the Minix filesystem with gzip and put on disk as initrd.gz 4. Modify linuxrc to run /sbin/init at the end I don't

Re: [Leaf-devel] Linux 2.4.16 and LEAF

2001-12-05 Thread Jacques NIlo
If I understand right, the steps are: 1. Create and compile a kernel of your choice. 2. Create a Minix file system and populate it with the contents of root.lrp 3. Compress the Minix filesystem with gzip and put on disk as initrd.gz 4. Modify linuxrc to run /sbin/init at the end I

Re: [Leaf-devel] Linux 2.4.16 and LEAF

2001-12-05 Thread David Douthitt
Jacques NIlo wrote: My proposal - and what I have implemented in my last experimental LEAF 2.4.16 image (the b1 version)- is the following: a/ Whatever is provided after the initrd= variable will contain the smallest possible filesystem. The smallest I found consists of a 1,2M

Re: [Leaf-devel] Linux 2.4.16 and LEAF

2001-12-05 Thread Jacques NIlo
You and initrd.txt both talk of pivot_root - but I can't find the command anywhere. It's in busybox. Read initrd.txt in kernel Doc for instruction. Actually, Oxygen does NOT do this, as busybox is entirely statically linked, and includes all applets as before. Many of the necessities of

Re: [Leaf-devel] Linux 2.4.16 and LEAF

2001-12-05 Thread Charles Steinkuehler
I don't think this is the best way to solve this. IMHO, it's better to have the kernel boot with root=[!ram0], which will get linuxrc running. I don't know what you mean by that... What would root= be, then? And what does that have to do with /linuxrc? I'm just getting a handle on

Re: [Leaf-devel] Linux 2.4.16 and LEAF

2001-12-05 Thread David Douthitt
Jacques NIlo wrote: You and initrd.txt both talk of pivot_root - but I can't find the command anywhere. It's in busybox. Read initrd.txt in kernel Doc for instruction. I saw initrd.txt - and have 2.4 systems here, too. Doing a which pivot_root or a man pivot_root fails on all systems

Re: [Leaf-devel] Linux 2.4.16 and LEAF

2001-12-05 Thread David Douthitt
Charles Steinkuehler wrote: If I understand right, the steps are: 1. Create and compile a kernel of your choice. 2. Create a Minix file system and populate it with the contents of root.lrp 3. Compress the Minix filesystem with gzip and put on disk as initrd.gz 4. Modify linuxrc to

Re: [Leaf-devel] Linux 2.4.16 and LEAF

2001-12-05 Thread Charles Steinkuehler
If I understand right, the steps are: 1. Create and compile a kernel of your choice. 2. Create a Minix file system and populate it with the contents of root.lrp 3. Compress the Minix filesystem with gzip and put on disk as initrd.gz 4. Modify linuxrc to run /sbin/init at the

[Leaf-devel] Linux 2.4.16 and LEAF

2001-12-04 Thread David Douthitt
I was going through past mailing list messages (I have 1301 on hand :) and was trying to find out what had been going on with patching 2.4 for LEAF. I remembered that the LRP patches were made obsolete, both by massive changes to the kernel initrd code and by the future removal of initrd, as