On Sat, 7 Apr 2001, Ewald Wasscher wrote:
> > Please, someone who's monkeyed with the default 2.9.8 Linuxrc script,
> > doublecheck me on that.
>
> I wouldn't swear on it, but I think this is accurate.
Close enough for government work.
> This could be a nice way of loading the bulk of leaf from a cdrom. I
That was the idea; either that or a hard drive. The base idea was to allow
for such things as hard drives - which most of the time, are just as cheap
for a 120-meg as an old ISA NIC would be, if not cheaper - to store the
packages and perhaps a swapfile and logs when the system is running. You'd
still have all of your configs on read-write, write-protectable media that
way with a config.lrp a la Oxygen. It would also work for CD-ROMs
perfectly. My idea is basically, why bother stuffing the largest package
you've got onto the floppy if you don't have to?
> suppose the boot.lrp will have to remain on the floppy in order to
> remain compatible with 486's and older pentiums that don't support
> booting from cdrom. In that case it might be useful to link the binaries
> in boot.lrp to some kind of embedded libc (uClibc, newlib et al) in
> order to keep the boot.lrp as small as possible.Tweaking linuxrc so that
> it will work with busybox's sed applet instead of GNU sed could save a
> few bytes too.
Thought about trying uClibc for the bootstrap package, but I haven't gone
any farther than that. The problem that I worry about is "dirty" package
handling, where a file gets left over from uClibc, and throws off all
sorts of stuff.
As for Sed, well, sed is an uncompressed 17k, so I don't know that the
savings would be worth making linuxrc incompatible with other distros.
> Sshd might not be _absolutely_ necessary to run leaf, but I wouldn't
> want to have router without it
Nor would I, but it's not a package that's required to get the base system
to a functional state.
> You ^%*&*((*& American (&*&(*& :-)
Heh. =)
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