RE: Linux Development Request

[Chris Bond]

I managed to get it down to 4mb before for viaproject that never got
finished - booted in 4seconds too of a via epia - gives you something to
work for.

Kind Regards,
Chris Bond

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From: Tony T [mailto:<a
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Subject: RE: [ukha_xpl] Linux Development Request

> Do you really mean a FULL redhat linux distro? That would
> take a week and a half to boot wouldn;t it...

Well I stripped out kernel development, and I don't have x installed.
Full was probably overstating it, as to me linux is the dos part ;-)

The main fs is about 70mb (compressed to 16mb) and loaded into ramdisk,
and
/usr is on an nfs share
It's almost as fast to load as it is from the hdd

> I'd be interested in how you went about doing this, as I
> intend to try for another project I'm working on.

Biggest issue is the fact that the windows nfs server I'm using doesn't
recognise user/groups etc, but it works.
I'm starting again with redhat 9, and trying to make it smaller.
My aim is really to create an STB...

> >over the network from a Windows XP PC...
> >And it's completely silent as there is no hdd and no fans
>
> Which mobo etc are you using?

Mini-itx eden 5000

> >The only issue is that the ramdisk image holds the ip address of
the
> >nfs server, and I need to do this remotely from the xp pc, so the
> >ramdisk image can be used by anyone regardless of their ip
> addresses...
> >
> >Any pxe/tftp guru's out there?
> >
>
> take a look at the DHCP section here :
> <a href="http://logout.sh/computers/linux/netboot/";>http://logout.sh/computers/linux/netboot/</a>

Thanks Andy, I will.

Regards
Tony



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