Brian Wilson wrote: > My initial desire was to make a system bootable from a rescue partition, > working remotely. > > At the moment I am thinking that it might not be too hard to just cram > enough functionality into a initrd set up to skip the rescue partition > entirely. Just boot an initrd and stop. Any thoughts on this? In a minute > I will look around on the web and probably find 50 tiny distros based > on this idea...
The installer is exactly that, a standalone system inside the initrd. You can easily create that using tsl-initrd, that was the main feature when I wrote it. :) And you'll have it down to a minimal size as well, because the installer is kinda bloated.. ;) If you still reach the viper code on pserver.trustix.org, or grab it somewhere else, you'll find a script that prepares and uses tsl-initrd's mkinitrd to create the installer initramdisk. It can be slightly modified to do anything from an up to date minimalistic TSL system, to any other miniature distribution really. :) c -- Christian Haugan Toldnes Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle _______________________________________________ tsl-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.trustix.org/mailman/listinfo/tsl-discuss
