> 1 -> Moving to hard disk: Tom has answered this a few times, but not > recently (and I suspect there have been changes since then): Copy > everything (except proc) from a booted floppy to disk, make changes to > inittab, fstab, rc.S, rc.M, settings.s and rc.custom (what changes > specifically to these files?). Anything else?
The key here is that a hard-drive booted system may have fundamentally different requirements, such as, fsck on boot, or umount on shutdown, which have not been designed into tomsrtbt, which I havn't specified. > 3 -> lib.so.6: Needed - just a matter of copying one to /lib? Probably also ld-linux.so.2, maybe another few hundred libraries, depending. > 4 -> Bash: Needed (using rbash, no equivalent in ash) - Just a matter of > changing /etc/passwd to root /bin/bash? Dunno. You are already way past the point where I would just install Slackware or DebIan on a small partition. Why not? -Tom
