At 10:22 2001-07-30 +0100, David Damerell wrote:
>Surely no-one who's competent to use a rescue floppy needs something
>like 'mc'? (Wants, maybe, but unnecessary duplication of tools does us
>no favours.)
>
>'sides, it's pretty large. Tom, how about NetHack, while we're at it? :-)
My standard toolbox includes a couple of auxilliary floppies which have a
script on them which will copy and make symlinks for additional tools
(generally dumping them into a subdir under /tmp/ for lack of a mount with
more space in it). The full gnu tar, mc, tcpdump, etc. Don't need to ask
for them to be on the initial floppy - sure, they'd be nice, but if you can
boot TomsRTBT for a standard kernel, then add a second disk to the mix to
bring in your own suite of tools and updated libraries, why mess with a
good thing?
My biggest two wishes for moficiations to the standard TomsRTBT distro
would be:
The ability to specify the RAMDrive size as an option right in the text
config file, rather than as a boot time option or something requiring a
rebuild. The additional RAMDisk space would then accomodate the aux tools.
Secondly, to incorporate a simple script which looks for and mounts a
floppy or CD and runs a script on it to add resources to the boot
disk. Right now, I insert my aux tools media and mount it, then run the
script - but it'd be really swift to just stuff the media in and hit a two
or three character command and have the whole lot performed.
I know, both sound like features for lazy folk, but what they would do is
allow people to easily supplement the TomsRTBT disk with additional tools
without having to get too personal with the build process for TomsRTBT, or
- as importantly - to have to repeat it each time a new release of TomsRTBT
comes out, and they'd accomplish it in a nice streamlined fashion which is
consistent from one supplementary toolkit to the next.
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