> > ftp://ftp.toms.net/rb/add-ons/ElTorito.288.bz2
> >
> > decompress it and install it as a 2.88MB floppy CD boot image.
>
> While I've had considerable success this particular Dec 14th image,
> I'm wondering if you are planning to make an update to a more recent
> version of your rescue disk.
>
> Also, I can't seem to recall if the config files that you used to
> build it are available... within the image itself once it's up and
> running?
As I recall, I just slapped it together, and it worked the first time.
I should probably make some scripts to do it automatically.
-booted tomsrtbt
-cpio'ed everything except /proc to one ramdisk on /dev/ram0
-fixed the settings.s, lilo.conf and fstab for a 2.88 meg /dev/ram0
-built it
> I'll soon be playing around with more CDROM burning myself. With a
> 2.88Mb image to play around with, I'm tempted to attempt to use this
> as a basis to make a CDROM boot image that includes the glibc6 runtime
> loader and libraries (and perhaps even some of the modules and other
> useful utilities).
Please do send it to me. One think I did that took up space, was to put
the kernel image onto _both_ the 1/ that it boots from, _and_ the 2/ that
is available at run time. I did this so you could install to somewhere
after booting, and I couldn't figure out how you access the actual 2.88
image _after_ booting from cdrom... If you figure that one out, and put
in a note thereof, you can delete the kernel from 2/.
> BTW, on another point altogether... the history mechanism that is
> being used with ash is quite good. Does it have any capabilities for
> recalling specific commands, eg, recalling any command that
> pattern-matches an entered sequence (like bash can do)? This would be
> very useful for easily finding commands that have been typed far back
> into the history.
Do "man ile". It has stuff like that, I think. It is really a completely
separate program from ash, and even allows funky things like adding
history to an ftp prompt.
> On yet another point... any consideration of doing a two-disk set,
> with the second disk image including a bunch of other utilities?
Probably not. But there is no reason not to make another diskette and
mount it. It is just beyond the scope I'm willing to take on. Especially
as I'm busier now with trying to learn Java and CORBA and RMI and JNI and
Jaguar and Kiva/NAS and Cafe and Select and NT and Solaris so that they'll
keep paying me.
There are a number of bugs I have to fix soon, probably what I'm going to
do is take out the token-ring support and put it into the add-ons
directory because the pcmcia token ring seems to require it be modularized
anyway. I'll probably do a newer version of the ext2fs-tools, the pcmcia
stuff, try to shore up the unpack/build tools to be a bit more idiot proof,
fix the case insensitivity bug in egrep, etc. I havn't had time to try my
folly idea- I want to see if I can make a working dhcpcd in awk+nc- but I
havn't given up, either.
At some point, I'm going to have to seriously tackle the stupid 4K
overhead from the libc5 C run time stub. Maybe glibc6 will actually
*save* space, who knows... or, I can do some enormous kludge with linking
everything together into a lower number of bigger executables. Or make a
huge shared library. Something has to be done, there is a lot of wasted
space, even though bzip is probably compressing the redundent stub really
well.
-Tom
