[juneau-lug] Re: building a rescue image
- From: "James Zuelow" <jamesz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <juneau-lug@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 22 Nov 2002 08:38:35 -0800
> -----Original Message-----
>
> I've played just a bit with mindi and it will make an 11MB bootable
> image on my Woody box, but of course, that's a completely
> bare skeleton.
> I haven't yet tried to figure out what we can hang on that
> skeleton in
> 50MB total.
>
49MB is a lot of room to play with for tools. Have you looked into
isolinux for booting? With isolinux it is easier to choose between
multiple boot images on the same CD. This lets you choose to boot to a
shell like Tom's Root Boot or boot to Memtest86. So perhaps the easiest
thing to do is to put together an isolinux bootable CD with a variety of
tools to choose from on the boot menu. We can re-invent the wheel
later. :)
> I'll bang about a little more on the web, and also try to investigate
> some of the automagic tools like mindi a bit further. One thing I'm
> curious about is how much we can trim Knoppix and still keep
> the amazing
> hardware detection. I suspect that we can't get 700MB down
> to less than 50.
>
No, probably not. However remember those little 8cm CDs at Fred's -
those are about 200MB, and that's a lot of room. My firewall lives on a
345MB hard drive, and when I was poking around last night the total disk
usage was at 239MB. So the 200MB mark should give us enough room for a
working system, just without the bells & whistles. It's not credit card
sized, but certainly shirt pocket sized.
Cheers,
James
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