From zentara@mindspring.com Tue Mar 24 22:37:04 1998 From: zentara@mindspring.com To: users@lists.opensuse.org Subject: Re: [S.u.S.E. Linux] The Linux Kernel Compiler Web Page Date: Tue, 24 Mar 1998 23:37:04 +0100 Message-ID: <6f9cig$ja5$1@Galois.suse.de> In-Reply-To: <[S.u.S.E. Linux] The Linux Kernel Compiler Web Page> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="===============8685052474984408666==" --===============8685052474984408666== Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Andrew L. Davis wrote: > > zentara wrote: > > You can get linux running with only about 15 megs of space. > > > > If you are interested go to: > > http://gw= yn.tux.org/pub/people/kent-robotti/index.html> > > > > The one question I would like to toss out, is what is the bare minimum > > system needed to boot with NFS support? > > > > Besides the kernel, what configuration files are absolutely > > neccesary for linux to run? And what executables do you need? > > Of course bash, but what else? >=20 > You can get Linux to boot off of a floppy and mount it's root partion over > NFS. I do not know how fast this is but can really expand the number of > computers one can make useable. >=20 You mean if you had floppy set up right, you could theoretically boot a win95 machine with it. Mount the root filesystem via NFS, on the dos partition, with UMSDOS built into the floppy kernel? =20 Is this floppy creation basically the same as the "mini-how-to" on Boot Disks"? Or is there some special way to buid these floppies. I made a boot and root floppy with YAST, and the boot floppy could be mounted as a minix filesystem and looked at. But the root floppy was some unknown filesystem. How do they make it? Is it an image which is loaded into ramdisk? zentara -- To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo(a)suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e --===============8685052474984408666==--