I degress a bit but this is a link to some very handy boot disks. I have
used both cramdisk and tomsrtbt with succsess. Both create a ram disk for
operation about 4meg. What would it take to copy the ram disk to the
harddrive and make it bootable.
http://www.zait.uni-bremen.de/pub/mirrors/sunsite/system/recovery/
Pat
Denis Havlik wrote:
> :>Hello All.......
> :>
> :>I'm curious too know, if some could give me an idea of what would be the
> :>minimum install to get a basic system up and running..
>
> ? Depends on what you call "basic". There are "mini" and "micro" linux
> distributions out there which fit on two floppies or so... No X, no user
> programs, etc...
>
> You will come rather near to "smallest possible Mandrake install" if you
> choose: "manually choose packages" and disable everything you can - AFAIK
> it will install some core system even if you disable everything. No idea
> what this would be good for, but it's your system...
>
> :>What i'm after is too do a system from the ground up installing just the
> :>progs that i want on the system, recompiling them as i install them
> :>etc......
>
> Install your "basic system", log-in and type
>
> "rpm -qia>/tmp/installed-progs.list"
>
> in a terminal. This will give you list of installed packages+some info
>
> To find out what you have on your CD, type:
>
> "rpm -qip *>/tmp/all-progs.list" in "RPMS" directory.
>
> >From now on - it is up to you...
>
> Recompiling programms under Linux is a breeze - I am afraid it will not
> teach you much. It cannot hearth you either. Recompile a kernel - this is
> a cute expirience. Other than that... Well, my sugestion is - try working
> with a system for some time. Find out where the documentation is :
> man/info/HOWTO/FAQ/dejanews...
>
> Sooner or later you will find a small program which "would be much better
> if it only could do X". Well, this is the program you want to work on. In
> the meantime, learning C,C++,perl or basically any other programming
> language is a Good Thing (TM).
>
> :>Basically I'm doing this out of a combination of curiousity, and to get
> :>a more in depth working knowledge of linux in general.....
>
> Take care - Linux is a bad desease. The more you know the more you will
> want to learn. And once you are hooked... .-)
>
> may Tux be with you.
>
> Denis
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