-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 09 May 2002 01:58 pm, Henning, Brian wrote: > Hello- > I need to make a boot disk that can mount ext2 partitons and that has > an editor so i can edit files. Can someone point me in the right > direction so i can learn how to create such a boot disk. > thanks,
Details on creating your own boot disk can be found here: http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Bootdisk-HOWTO/index.html I use a root/boot disk I put together with the above howto, busybox, and the uClibc library. It will boot in as little as 4M of RAM and contains roughly 90 common tools. It's used as a boot disk for one of the RULE project installers, but functions well as a root/boot disk on it's own. It has both vi and nano (a clone of pico) available as editors, and can mount ext2 partitions. Here's a list of the binaries available: [mfratoni@paradox filesystem]$ ls bin/ sbin/ usr/bin/ usr/sbin/ bin/: ash chmod date false hostname mkdir mv rm sleep true chown dd grep kill mknod ping rmdir sync umount cat cp df gunzip ln more ps sed tar uname chgrp cpio echo gzip ls mount pwd sh touch vi zcat sbin/: cfdisk halt init loadkmap mke2fs modprobe reboot route swapon fdisk ifconfig insmod lsmod mkswap pivot_root rmmod swapoff usr/bin/: clear du free killall reset tail tty wc whoami basename cut env head md5sum rpm2cpio tee uniq wget xargs chvt dirname find id nano sort test uptime which yes usr/sbin/: chroot If you want to try it and see what is possible, it's here: http://www.tuxfan.homeip.net:8080/rule/slinky-boot.img You can write the image to a floppy like so: dd if=slinky-boot.img of=/dev/fd0 bs=1440k Hope that helps, - -- - -Michael pgp key: http://www.tuxfan.homeip.net:8080/gpgkey.txt Red Hat Linux 7.2 in 8M of RAM: http://www.rule-project.org/ - -- -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iEYEARECAAYFAjzbDEYACgkQn/07WoAb/Sv+5ACeKTxkwPMJuflAtC6PmEW07SZH wvMAniHdp8PmKLqtjMhPk3FiiDkdFtRf =CL9E -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
