Hi Lance,
interesting.. uClibc and busybox is about as small
as it can get.
I noticed that Todd Sundsted referred to the use of compile/installing
lilo.
Cluggers may be interested to know that lilo now has a bitmap image
(16 colours) that can be viewed to make the selection on bootup.
Users of the peanut distro will be familiar with this as peanut has used
this in peanut-9,2. but the lilo version also provides some nice looking
pics of the tux penguin.
In the article it is stated that lilo is built using the command 'make'.
There is also a quickinstall' script provided by the present developer
John Coffman called 'QuickInst' which makes the install easy and safe.
The steps to install lilo are:
-download the lilo-22.3.4.tar.gz from lilo homepage
http://www.brun.dyndns.org/pub/linux/lilo/
- make a floppy bootdisk first, 'mkbootdisk' in redhat I think and also
in the utilities manu.
- backup /etc/lilo.conf and the /boot directory.
- uninstall the redhat/debian distro lilo proggie.
rpm -e lilo or dpkg -r lilo, the kernel image stays in /boot but the lilo
files are removed.
- unzip and cd into lilo-22.3.4 , there is a README and README.bitmaps file.
- ./QuickInst
(runs the install script which will build and asks how many os's you
want written in /etc/lilo.conf and where the lilo boot sector should
be installed)
If you prefer lilo written to the MBR you type /dev/hda
Thats about it but the /etc/lilo.conf file usually requires some tweaking
to get the tux pic and menu selections in the x,y positions of your choice.
The first time I installed lilo from source it took 20 minutes to figure
out how to configure the x,y tux positions in /etc/lilo.conf, but that aside
it is only a couple of minutes to install/setup lilo-22.3.4 once you know how
and you just use the same header section of /etc/lilo.conf on any system to
bring up the appearance.
Any cluggers/dunluggers lotl wanting a copy of my /etc/lilo.comf is welcome
to email me.
cheers,
keith.
On Wed, 27 Nov 2002, Lance BLACKLER wrote:
> I recall that there was quite a bit of discussion sometime back about
> distro's suitable for older hardware. I have just been reading an article
> on IBM's site that might be of interest.
>
> http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-lwl1/
>
> ciao
>
> Lance B
