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07-06-2002, 12:27 AM
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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
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07-06-2002, 12:46 AM
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07-06-2002, 05:07 AM
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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
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07-06-2002, 05:24 AM
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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.
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07-06-2002, 05:43 AM
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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.
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07-06-2002, 05:48 AM
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Cool, email is sent. I asked tom if he would reply on here.
Cool
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07-06-2002, 06:12 AM
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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.
Last edited by nutshell; 07-06-2002 at 06:14 AM.
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07-06-2002, 11:08 AM
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use lilo or grug
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07-06-2002, 08:16 PM
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But do they use lilo?
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07-06-2002, 08:48 PM
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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
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07-06-2002, 09:26 PM
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i made my own bootdisk within about 5mins, i want a graphic too but every attempt has failed
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07-06-2002, 11:25 PM
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Oh did you just recompiled the kernel and stuff. How did you attempt to put your own graphics or text during boot time?
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07-07-2002, 10:53 PM
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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.
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07-07-2002, 11:20 PM
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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?
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