[Leaf-devel] Re: [Leaf-user] Re:

2001-12-05 Thread Michael D. Schleif
"Michael D. Schleif" wrote: > > Charles Steinkuehler wrote: > > > > > Did you see my post about net-snmp? This package requires libdb.so.2 which > > > is not part of the libraries on the Dachstein CD. I found the file on the > > > Debian web site in the libdb++ package. Did you include it in eit

[Leaf-devel] Re: [Leaf-user] Re:

2001-12-05 Thread Michael D. Schleif
Charles Steinkuehler wrote: > > > Did you see my post about net-snmp? This package requires libdb.so.2 which > > is not part of the libraries on the Dachstein CD. I found the file on the > > Debian web site in the libdb++ package. Did you include it in either of > > your net-snmp packages? If no

Re: [Leaf-devel] Linux 2.4.16 and LEAF

2001-12-05 Thread Charles Steinkuehler
> > > If I understand right, the steps are: > > > > > > 1. Create and compile a kernel of your choice. > > > 2. Create a Minix file system and populate it with the contents of > > > root.lrp > > > 3. Compress the Minix filesystem with gzip and put on disk as initrd.gz > > > 4. Modify linuxrc to ru

Re: [Leaf-devel] Linux 2.4.16 and LEAF

2001-12-05 Thread David Douthitt
Charles Steinkuehler wrote: > > > If I understand right, the steps are: > > > > 1. Create and compile a kernel of your choice. > > 2. Create a Minix file system and populate it with the contents of > > root.lrp > > 3. Compress the Minix filesystem with gzip and put on disk as initrd.gz > > 4. Mod

Re: [Leaf-devel] Linux 2.4.16 and LEAF

2001-12-05 Thread David Douthitt
Jacques NIlo wrote: > > > You and initrd.txt both talk of pivot_root - but I > > can't find the command anywhere. > > It's in busybox. Read initrd.txt in kernel Doc for > instruction. I saw initrd.txt - and have 2.4 systems here, too. Doing a which pivot_root or a man pivot_root fails on all s

Re: [Leaf-devel] Linux 2.4.16 and LEAF

2001-12-05 Thread Charles Steinkuehler
> > I don't think this is the best way to solve this. IMHO, it's better to have > > the kernel boot with root=[!ram0], which will get linuxrc running. > > I don't know what you mean by that... What would root= be, then? And > what does that have to do with /linuxrc? > > I'm just getting a handl

Re: [Leaf-devel] Linux 2.4.16 and LEAF

2001-12-05 Thread Jacques NIlo
> You and initrd.txt both talk of pivot_root - but I can't find the > command anywhere. It's in busybox. Read initrd.txt in kernel Doc for instruction. > Actually, Oxygen does NOT do this, as busybox is entirely statically > linked, and includes all applets as before. Many of the "necessities"

Re: [Leaf-devel] Linux 2.4.16 and LEAF

2001-12-05 Thread David Douthitt
Charles Steinkuehler wrote: > I don't think this is the best way to solve this. IMHO, it's better to have > the kernel boot with root=[!ram0], which will get linuxrc running. I don't know what you mean by that... What would root= be, then? And what does that have to do with /linuxrc? I'm jus

Re: [Leaf-devel] Linux 2.4.16 and LEAF

2001-12-05 Thread David Douthitt
Jacques NIlo wrote: > My proposal - and what I have implemented in my last > experimental LEAF 2.4.16 image (the b1 version)- is the > following: > > a/ Whatever is provided after the initrd= variable will > contain the smallest possible filesystem. The smallest I > found consists of a 1,2M (unc

Re: [Leaf-devel] Linux 2.4.16 and LEAF

2001-12-05 Thread Jacques NIlo
> If I understand right, the steps are: > > > > 1. Create and compile a kernel of your choice. > > 2. Create a Minix file system and populate it with the contents of > > root.lrp > > 3. Compress the Minix filesystem with gzip and put on disk as initrd.gz > > 4. Modify linuxrc to run /sbin/init at

Re: [Leaf-devel] Linux 2.4.16 and LEAF

2001-12-05 Thread Charles Steinkuehler
> If I understand right, the steps are: > > 1. Create and compile a kernel of your choice. > 2. Create a Minix file system and populate it with the contents of > root.lrp > 3. Compress the Minix filesystem with gzip and put on disk as initrd.gz > 4. Modify linuxrc to run /sbin/init at the end I d