From: rick@ee.uwm.edu (Rick Miller, Linux Device Registrar) Subject: Re: WHERE is bootable rootdisk? Date: 17 Dec 1992 05:41:03 GMT
mliggett@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Mister Wizard) writes:
>i looked for it on tsx-11 and couldn't find it.
>I have a 486 w/ only 2MB ram and I want to install Linux, but I'm
>not about to wait through the swapfest that SLS would put me through.
I know what you mean! [Peter, can't you do it the bootable root way?]
Hong Jiu Lu's bootable rootdisks may be found as:
tsx-11.mit.edu:/pub/linux/GCC/rootdisk/3rootdisk.Z and
tsx-11.mit.edu:/pub/linux/GCC/rootdisk/5rootdisk.Z
The first is for 3.5" floppy drives, the second for 5.25" drives.
You'll probably also want the .../GCC/rootdisk/README.rootdisk file too.
>I will soon have 6MB but would like to get familiar with Linux first.
>Also, does this installation contain emacs, lilo, elm, gcc, et. al.?
>Thanks a bunch.
The bootable rootdisk has lilo and enough of the basic utilities to let
you install it onto your hard drive (cp, vi, mount, ls, fdisk, compress,
more, tar [note that tar must be uncompressed before it's useable], etc.)
His "basedisk" collection contains lots of GNU utilities.
No emacs, no elm... but GCC 2.2.27d and its libraries are on other disks.
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