At 04:01 PM 7/1/01 +0200, Oliver Ob wrote:
>Hi mates,
>this is for some boot disk concerns.
>
>I want to learn how to create my own Linux boot disk using which
>I can run a REAL TIGHT linux from this disk.
>
>Any pointer to valueable texts, what I plan is this:
I'd say your best bet is to learn from some of the existing 1-disk systems.
The examples I happen to like are:
tomsrtbt (available at metalab)
LEAF/Oxygen and LEAF/EigerStein (leaf.sourceforge.net)
Linux Router Project (www.linuxrouter.org)
Generally, look around metalab for others. There are many other choices,
mostly old and abandoned, as well as several 2- or 3-disk systems (Trinux is
a nice example of the latter).
Also check
http://opensource.lineo.com/
where you will find into on busybox (the portmanteau app that substitutes
for sixty or so individual Linux/Unix apps) and uClibC (a compact
replacement for the increasingly gargantuan glibc-2.1.x). Erik Andersen,
current maintainer of busybox, wrote a nice paper some months ago on
building a Linux system using busybox and uClibC; I saw him present it at
the SF Embedded Systems Conference, and he said then that it would be
available online very soon. I haven't found it, but you might look around
for it.
Depending on what distribution you use for your development system, you may
find help there. Debian, for example, has a bootdisks mailing list and a
bootdisks .deb package. Since you included a SuSE list in your original
message, I'm guessing that you use SuSE, but I don't have any knowledge
specific to that distro.
>Boot Linux incl. Network
> Run insmod ppa for my ZiP-parallel drive
>
>Is there enough place for a mignite comm? or clone?
Sorry, but I've never heard of "mignite comm". Usually the small systems can
find a way to fit a basic serial-communications app, if that's what you are
talking about.
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