[251] in SIPB_Linux_Development
Bootable root disk with network utilities
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (ghudson@MIT.EDU)
Wed Dec 8 22:26:41 1993
From: ghudson@MIT.EDU
Date: Wed, 8 Dec 93 22:26:12 EST
To: linux-dev@MIT.EDU
A lot of users who want to install Linux don't want to copy a big
stack of floppies. In light of this, I have constructed a bootable
root disk containing a minimal file-system, telnet, and ftp.
Because tcsh or bash both take up 200K, I am using sash, a 30K
mini-shell which incorporates ln, ls, mv, cp, rm, mkdir, rmdir, ed,
tar, more, mount, etc.. This saves about 350K of space.
Unfortunately, sash is a bit buggy when it comes to the environment
and isn't terribly featureful, but hopefully users won't be spending
much time using this disk.
I will put the disk image in /afs/sipb/project/linux/boot-net. I will
write up a guide on how to use it, and put it in the same directory.
I am mostly targeting experienced users, but will try to be as
explicit as possible.
I am going to try using the beta Debian distribution to reinstall
quiche, as soon as I find out where it is. The Debian distribution
follows the draft filesystem standards, and uses /sbin, so it is
likely to expose file-system dependencies in our stuff, and will look
like future Linux distributions are likely to.
--GBH
