Well, tomsrtbt is designed for repair and rescue. That is, say, you run Brand-X Linux, and it crashes, and you need to fix the filesystem, replace a broken disk, restore a backup, restore the bootloader. You use tomsrtbt to fix your Brand-X Linux.
Tomsrtbt is not intended to be a Linux distribution for running any kind of application, per se, such as, but not limited to, reading mail, printing, being a firewall, being a fileserver, browsing the internet, being a router, being a diskless workstation, etc. Support for printing is intentionally absent. You would need to first add support for the printer itself, I guess lp.o might be in the archive if it is a parallel-Centronics-port printer. Then, you would need to compile a libc5 or static version of lpd, and, I assume, lpc, lpq, lprm, lpr, etc. You can't use a glibc6 version. I would recommend you look into other solutions, first- such as, but not limited to, MuLinux, SlackWare, something booted over the network using bootp or whatever the newer versions of ether-boot are called, tftpboot, dhcpboot, I forget, but, you can have your floppy with just the kernel, and have the actual boot happen over the network. Probably someone has even made a floppy-based print server, but, I don't know of it. If you want to proceed with tomsrtbt, don't worry about buildit.s at first. First, get your lpd working from a second floppy, after all, you can take out the tomsrtbt boot floppy once it boots. If you get a libc5 lpd working the way you want, _then_ worry about using buildit.s to make it part of the base floppy. -Tom On Thu, 1 Jul 2004, Carlos Vigliola ADINET wrote: > Date: Thu, 1 Jul 2004 15:05:41 -0300 > From: Carlos Vigliola ADINET <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [tomsrtbt] About buildit.s > > Dear Tom: > > first at all I am sorry because my english is really very bad. > > In this days I have discovered this tool that I thinks is usefull. > I have been reading the archive list about buildit.s but I can not find an answer > about how run it well. I need to add lpr to the floppy to run a diskless workstation > with printer support. > > Is there any new version of this tool or any new hints about this topic?. > > Thank you, very much. > > Carlos. >
