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Re: [ecs] ECS/Linux CDROM distribution Ingo Pakleppa 09 Oct 2003 00:32:18 -0700

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On Tue, 2003-10-07 at 15:48, Mark Gilmore wrote:
> Hi Rob,
> Thanks loads for the offer :-).
> I may take you up on this later.
> My current plan is to install a minimal RH9 on a spare PC's hard disk (I 
> have the RH9 install CDs),
> assure that I am under 650M, and then test it with ECS.

The good news is that it will be considerably less. My own CD
distribution (which unfortunately isn't ready for prime time, and
currently on ice due to time overcommitment) is about 140 MB. RedHat
probably requires quite a bit more, but it should be fairly easy to keep
it below 650 MB. The only caveat: you probably would run into trouble if
you try to install X.

> Then if it works, my "only" task is to make a bootable CD from the 
> resulting HD distribution,
> *assuming* that I can somehow tell the CD version to use a floppy or ram 
> disk for all
> write-able files. But this latter task might be a serious problem (??).

It's not a big huge deal, thanks to the "mount" command. Simply mount
the floppy as /var and the ram disk as /tmp (or some such), and create
symbolic links for all the files that need to be writable in /etc.

Figuring out which ones need to be writeable could be an issue, though.

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