Re: LNX-BBC-NET (bbc 2.1 hacked into a netboot) - network rescue floppy

The compressed initrd (root.gz) is about 48 megs which was the same size
more or less as the singularity file loaded by cloop.

It uses 192 megs of ram because that's how big the 'loop' fs image is/was.

Removing all of the excessive free space from the lnx-bbc-net image is
doable. (about 60 megs) bringing it around 130 uncompressed.

But compressed it's really no different then it was before.

It takes a good number of seconds to boot this way over the network,

And it *is* at 50 megs. It is. :) Trust me. :)

On Fri, 20 Jun 2003, Seth David Schoen wrote:

 SDS>Steven L. Fountain writes:
 SDS>
 SDS>> Ok, as useful as I have found BBC 2.1, I was wondering why there was no
 SDS>> network booting mechanism of the same image. So I have rsync'd all of the
 SDS>> files into a 192 meg initrd (for straight forward customization) which
 SDS>> boots fine with a recent DHCP server and a TFTP server.
 SDS>>
 SDS>> This is LNX-BBC-NET 2.1 and you can get it from the following two links:
 SDS>> 	theinfo	http://dreamscape.org/code/lnx-bbc-net.txt
 SDS>> 	bootdir	http://dreamscape.org/lnx-bbc-net.tgz
 SDS>>
 SDS>> Some machines don't have CD's, but this is a very useful distribution
 SDS>> method too. Enjoy.
 SDS>
 SDS>Hey, that's cool.  Do you think we can make it netboot using cloop (so
 SDS>it will be back down to 50 MB instead of 192 MB or so)?  This would
 SDS>help because it would be faster to load across the network, would work
 SDS>on machines with less RAM, and could potentially be included as a
 SDS>feature of the existing LNX-BBC CD.



Steven L. Fountain [system( architect, programmer, admin )]
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