From adavis@hayson.vmarketing.com Tue Mar 24 19:25:42 1998
From: adavis@hayson.vmarketing.com
To: users@lists.opensuse.org
Subject: Re: [S.u.S.E. Linux] The Linux Kernel Compiler Web Page
Date: Tue, 24 Mar 1998 20:25:42 +0100
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On Tue, Mar 24, 1998 at 12:26:49PM -0500, zentara wrote:
>=20
> Tom Schaefer wrote:
> >=20
> > Now here's an idea I've had for some time .... maybe the folks at SuSE wo=
uld be
> > interested in setting this up at their site. This idea would definitely b=
ring
> > traffic to their site - all Linux users would benefit - no matter what di=
st they
> > use.
> >=20
> > What would really be nice is if someone on a fast backbone were to build a
> > "Kernel Compiler Web Site".
> >=20
> > Users could, using a web form based upon various kernel revs, submit an o=
rder to
> > the site, have a kernel compiled and either e-mailed or sitting in a 'pic=
kup
> > directory' once it's completed. The resulting kernel would be in a tar.gz=
 file with
> > a copy of the .config file you submitted.
> >=20
>=20
> I did see something similar already called doslinux.
> It is a mini-linux distribution with the 2.033 kernel,
> fits on 6 floppies, and runs on a dos partition under the
> UMSDOS file system.
>=20
> It has 2 kernels , eide and scsi; and it has all the
> modules available to download.
>=20
> You can get linux running with only about 15 megs of space.
>=20
> If you are interested go to:
>     <A HREF=3D"http://gwyn.tux.org/pub/people/kent-robotti/index.html"><A H=
REF=3D"http://gwyn.tux.org/pub/people/kent-robotti/index.html</A">http://gwyn=
.tux.org/pub/people/kent-robotti/index.html</A</A>>
>=20
> The one question I would like to toss out, is what is the bare minimum
> system needed to boot with NFS support?
>=20
> 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=20
computers one can make useable.


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Andrew L. Davis					Network Operations
adavis(a)vprlnk.net				ViperLink International
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