From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 28049 invoked by uid 1002); 25 Jul 2003 22:44:04 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gentoo-dev-help@gentoo.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Received: (qmail 20551 invoked from network); 25 Jul 2003 22:44:04 -0000 From: Mike Frysinger Reply-To: vapier@gentoo.org To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2003 18:43:59 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.2 References: <20030725115209.2ff7b1f6.cbrewer@stealthaccess.net> In-Reply-To: <20030725115209.2ff7b1f6.cbrewer@stealthaccess.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Description: clearsigned data Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200307251844.03636.vapier@gentoo.org> Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] RE:Boot floppies X-Archives-Salt: d481fda5-60c4-4a4f-b963-8c5a2b0c9f90 X-Archives-Hash: d07c0e7005ccb64cc58019d4767655e0 =2D----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 25 July 2003 14:52, C. Brewer wrote: > Just out of curiosity, are you aiming for a sort of gentooish tom's, or a > generic boot the existing w/o a loader (rh style) or enough of a workable > root system to mount a cd and install (ala debian?) I'm personally more > interested in the latter, as I currently use debian's first two boot > floppies to help people get linux on older machines that don't boot from > the cd. the idea is to do make a boot floppy that allows you to install Gentoo :) so, we'd be aiming for bootloader + kernel (2.6.x does not support the=20 oldschool 1 disk w/out bootloader style) + workable env to setup your fs, d= /l=20 a tarball, and chroot from there ... uClibc has proven to provide small binaries so we can fit a lot on 1 disk :) probably be looking at the 2 disk series in order to get it all ... 1 disk= =20 w/kern + modules and another disk w/all the utilities you need to setup you= r=20 system for the chroot. like i said, i need help with the bootloader stage to keep this thing going =2D -mike =2D----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iQIVAwUBPyGyr0FjO5/oN/WBAQK7bRAAhkvRKugRS3ldRFKYG4RRlDNLfoOEXrT6 gJjjRUe4j4eLTOKSYrtblEVMySaV4VGLHGe2lDZIV6PM1MqqYBpyMOuVEeU0YQ0L L8ueUCVLAAEiu0li+G3U7HYrJcilg6XIRP1CXBUH/Fz8rNRppicFgHu+JE/sKRCj kNBoBVyH4aeXorT0jBJBl79WLvnmPrZZ3xeWnuHrMoG0lg/oxuh5b/ww8RruN29O YoWBFAvL/ReX68fIbjcp5Eh9K3RaSGzovrJ/ZOWk7UkDeOEQlZivV7FzgeQzDPIf S9s3GXT8xBcXSO6L8jyLchN53d6U2eqRv0N/DFISts0lnyiecZ+JNM9HilJywvan l5DIHzFWVFm28cH7fuuBJrwEkNdZe1ByGwUpA2qCHh2nfwFYPtF1KHEvNAHfy4Ix 55mNpPRJQET0gxIYlxpSGikCiaHQPLJ2TkA3bS+ojVuphbN4j+z3nXd3QuebtXW3 +pulNtHR6yFPXJeqviTdDT5s0+BBLIFfHVhnKlMoCKog4428RtBp3v8rZ9kog9Ap N8GmJZClA7Ylha5Qx1Ke4nctb38RvicDlFffElOxFzlog9HmwXGuW92H6+Kwnxkj BxHt0xBgohXBfZ576lzsAZVapkwo35eWaU4u8tPmbOnLj8TbEoxaHiJslHlmdCbH 2sPXIIEcBqs=3D =3DNYCf =2D----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list