Re: Customization questions

On Fri, Mar 26, 2004 at 11:10:45AM -0500, [email protected] wrote:
> Hi,
 
> Against Tom's general recommendations, we've decided to implement
> tomsrtbt on a hard drive (strictly as a rescue system rather than as a
> working system)  - it's an excellent tool that is very close to what
> we need and it seems like more work to hack down Gentoo or build a
> small LFS; I've been reading the mailing list archive to solve some
> of our customization needs.  I do have a few questions though that
> aren't really answered:

 I don't want to post off-topic but just how small do you need this
 hard disk partition to be?  I've installed LNX-BBC to a 64MB 
 compact flash unit and only had to modify one line in one file to get
 it booting.  (Actually the installation was to a 128MB CF, but it 
 used less than half the available space).

 The details are on my own wiki pages at:

 	http://www.starshine.org/sysadmoin/CompactFlashLinux

 ... one line you need to change is in step 12.

 In my case it was basically about a dozen steps (individual commands)
 to do that whole job.

 On that page you'll also find links to CFLinux (runs in 16MB) and
 RUNT (Slackware for USB thumb drives).

> 1 -> Moving to hard disk:  Tom has answered this a few times, but
> not recently (and I suspect there have been changes since then): Copy
> everything (except proc) from a booted floppy to disk, make changes
> to inittab, fstab, rc.S, rc.M, settings.s and rc.custom (what changes
> specifically to these files?).  Anything else?

> 2 -> Boot loader: We're already using Grub (for some important reasons
> we cannot switch to Lilo)  - any advice from anyone on how-to configure?

> 3 -> lib.so.6: Needed  - just a matter of copying one to /lib?

> 4 -> Bash: Needed (using rbash, no equivalent in ash) - Just a matter
> of changing /etc/passwd to root /bin/bash?

> Thanks a bunch, Jim


-- 
Jim Dennis