qeldroma Posted September 24, 2003 Report Share Posted September 24, 2003 I am short before buying, to get a solution to boot lokal and remount root-fs from NFS after startup. So someone did it? Install LM on let us say 256MB memory-stick bootable? ------------------- PLEASE do NOT discuss about the WHY. I need the HOW ;-) If i am successfull i will bring up a little new howto :-> Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pmpatrick Posted September 25, 2003 Report Share Posted September 25, 2003 I suppose it's possible to slim down mandrake enough to fit on 256MB, but it won't be easy. There are plenty of small distros that are specifically designed to fit in very limited space. Take a look at Damn Small Linux: http://www.damnsmalllinux.org/ It only needs 50MB!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DragonMage Posted September 25, 2003 Report Share Posted September 25, 2003 I think I used to see ads in distrowatch regarding a USB memory stick with a version of mandrake inside. It's been a while though and when I went to distrowatch today, I didn't see the ad anymore, so I don't know what company makes that thing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
qeldroma Posted September 25, 2003 Author Report Share Posted September 25, 2003 Want to take LM because of the ease of using URPMI... I did it now, bought a stick. Let's see how it does it's job... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theYinYeti Posted September 26, 2003 Report Share Posted September 26, 2003 Hi qeldroma! it's been a while :) I'm not sure I understand what you want, but I thought that maybe this might help you: http://www.localareasecurity.com/modules.p...&artid=6&page=1 http://www.ncsu.edu/resnet/runt/ As for the size of Mandrake, I think I remember that 9.0 claimed to be able to make a minimal install on a 80MB hard disk. Yves. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest GorGor Posted September 29, 2003 Report Share Posted September 29, 2003 I don't know about Mdk being on an Usb but it is claimed that FreeDOS o/s is available on www.diskonkey.com EDIT this may be of interest http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,3973...,1219042,00.asp Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
qeldroma Posted September 29, 2003 Author Report Share Posted September 29, 2003 Ok, did it. Now my machine boots the default kernel, but mounts the root via initrd from my server. So my little ITX-Multimedia-PC is without any disks :-) The easiest way is to take a fat partitition and syslinux' it. Then install the kernel and all necessary modules in the initrd. Voilà (Not so easy to find in the initrd-things, but that's another story) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ezroller Posted September 29, 2003 Report Share Posted September 29, 2003 could you retranslate that in layman's terms qeldroma? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
qeldroma Posted September 30, 2003 Author Report Share Posted September 30, 2003 could you retranslate that in layman's terms qeldroma? :shock: Hä?? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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