Creating a mini-linux home-made distribution
 

Hi,

How hard is it to create a home-made mini-linux distribution that fits on a floppy and which only contains some basic commands? This is not classified as LFS right? Is there any place that can start me off?

THanks

here is a good one

http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Bootdisk-HOWTO/

OK. But how can I display a splash screen showing for example a picture or who made this mini-distro before it boots or after it boots?

Many thanks, i'm really interested

You could probably do a bootsplash when lilo pops up. I didn't read the entire how to, just a flip through so I don't know if this is possible though.

I see some mini-distributions have their own splash screens. Two examples are Hal91(http://www.itm.tu-clausthal.de/~perle/hal91/) and Tomsrtbt(http://www.toms.net/rb/). I don't think they even have lilo.

Well, I am gonna email him and ask him to put the answer on here.

mailto:Tom@Toms.Net

That's his email address if you want to also.

Cool, email is sent. I asked tom if he would reply on here.

Cool

Thnx. I guess i'll just wait for him to come here then ^_^.

Oh but i'm not sure if tom's one is just ascii art or real pictures. But i'm sure Hal91's one is a graphic.

use lilo or grug

But do they use lilo?

They can, the making your own boot disk option as Dave pointed out from the how-to at linuxdoc. Hal doesn't I don't think, but Toms does.

Tom's is the absolute most stuff I've ever seen crammed on a 3.5. The only downshot to it is that there's no support for the journalling filesystems or ntfs so its loosing a little ground in the "save anything" category. Telnet, mount, they're all there, so I once used Tom's to move a mountain of data off of a laptop with a scorched win 2k partition (that happened to be formatted fat32 for some reason).

Cheers,

Finegan

i made my own bootdisk within about 5mins, i want a graphic too but every attempt has failed

Oh did you just recompiled the kernel and stuff. How did you attempt to put your own graphics or text during boot time?

For tom's it's just ascii. But for Hal91 there's a graphic. DO i just need to use lilo to do that? But if tomsrtbr and Hal91 both don't use lilo, there must be some other way.

hey, like what is this used for?
it's like an entire linux system in 1 floppy disk?, like an entire distribution in a floppy?