On Wed, 10 Mar 1999, Curtis (Jewell) Whalen wrote:
> >From: Marc Getty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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> >Single Floppy LL Tester?
> >========================
> >Method Two
> >- ----------
> >Use a linux bootable disk with mprime on it set to automatically
> >load on boot, again only manual testing, with temporary files
> >redirected to the hard drive of the computer. The linux kernel
> >would have to be both FAT32 aware, because most new machines
> >ship with FAT32 formatted hard drives now. Hell, if you are really
> >good network support could also be built into this disk!
> >
> >I am not a linux guru by any means, but I'm pretty sure this is
> >possible, and can then be freely distributed as a disk image.
>
> I REALLY like this idea.
>
> If this disk got distributed, maybe put LS-120 (SuperDisk) drivers on the disk
> for an alternate temporary files location as well. I know Linux has them.
>
> Or just make a big ramdrive!
>
> --Curtis
I've made a first approximation for a floppy like this and put it on
http://www.iaeste.dk/~henrik/projects/mprime.html
It's a standalone very small, very limited Linux system with mprime plus
the utilities to run.
I could have made it a lot smaller if I hadn't been adding a complete
runtime environment to figure out why mprime kept segfaulting on me, until
I finally figured out it's because it doesn't do all the checks it should
for low memory, so blindly uses the not after all allocated memory:(
If there is interest, I'll try to make it more useful, but there sure
isn't room for much, more right now:)
bye for now
--
Henrik Olsen, Dawn Solutions I/S
URL=http://www.iaeste.dk/~henrik/
Get the rest there.
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