fsvara
01-15-2001, 04:36 PM
I'd like to make some Linux demonstrations to some friends and I thought it would be good if I could boot Linux off a floppy that had an ext2 filesystem that would be mounted as / on their computers.
The easier standard shell utils (cp, mv, ls, mkdir, rm...) should be included.
I want to show them that Linux is not 'just like DOS', as they pretend (I guess they have seen a bash shell once, thought it was DOS with PROMT = blah@blah~>, until somebody told them it was Linux...). I'd like to include bash or csh, too, but it might not fit on a single disk, so I'm propbly gonna use ash.
I thought about a micro distro, but I'd prefer to make such a floppy myself, and compile the kernel on my own to include support for the mac ,FAT32 and ntfs filesystems. As I know what hardware it would be used on I could propably make the kernel smaller while supporting more hardware than micros , too.
I already looked for some sort of howto on linuxdoc, but there was nothing. Google down't come up with much, either.
Could you point me into the right direction? Some howto that discusses this?
The easier standard shell utils (cp, mv, ls, mkdir, rm...) should be included.
I want to show them that Linux is not 'just like DOS', as they pretend (I guess they have seen a bash shell once, thought it was DOS with PROMT = blah@blah~>, until somebody told them it was Linux...). I'd like to include bash or csh, too, but it might not fit on a single disk, so I'm propbly gonna use ash.
I thought about a micro distro, but I'd prefer to make such a floppy myself, and compile the kernel on my own to include support for the mac ,FAT32 and ntfs filesystems. As I know what hardware it would be used on I could propably make the kernel smaller while supporting more hardware than micros , too.
I already looked for some sort of howto on linuxdoc, but there was nothing. Google down't come up with much, either.
Could you point me into the right direction? Some howto that discusses this?