From: hlu@eecs.wsu.edu (H.J. Lu) Subject: ANNOUNCE: The Linux Base System Date: Mon, 5 Oct 1992 20:18:12 GMT
This is the Linux Base System, HJ release. It is linked with jump table
4.1. You should use it with my bootable root disks since the Linux Base
System has no shared images, which are required by all the binaries in
it. It has 3 minix disks. It can fit in either 5.25" or 3.5" floppy. It
is great as the system backup.
It is on tsx-11.mit.edu under pub/linux/GCC/basedisk.
A. Disk 1 (base1.Z)
It has /bin, /dev and /etc. Since ps stuffs are kernel dependent, you
should use the ones come with my bootable root disk.
In /bin, there are fileutils 3.3, shellutils 1.7, textutils 1.3, gnu
tar 1.10, ldd 1.1, compress 4.2.3, bash 1.12, zsh 2.20, doshell, fdisk
0.93, admutil 1.3, poeigl 1.6 and setfdprm.
In /etc, there are init/getty and other related stuffs,
mount/umount/swapon and LILO 0.5.
B. Disk 2 (base2.Z)
It has /usr. There are diff 1.15, find 3.7, grep 1.6, fgrep 1.1,
gnu make 3.62, gawk 2.13.2, flex 2.3.7, bison 1.18, patch 2.0.12u7,
sed 1.09, elvis 1.6, minicom 1.3.2, rzsz (This one may only work with
minicom.), more, setterm, od, strings and uuencode/uudecode.
C. Disk 3 (base3.Z)
This disk is basically a developement disk wihout compiler and library.
It has /usr. There are crt0.o/gcrt0.o, gdb 4.6, as, ar, gprof, ld, nm,
objdump, ranlib, size and strip
To install them on your hard drive.
1. uncompress base[1|2|3].Z.
2. rawrite or dd it to a floppy disk.
Now you have made a copy of Linux Base System on floppy. To copy it to
your hd, you should mount the floppy first and copy the disk. That is
mount /dev/fd[0|1] /mnt
cd /mnt
for d in bin dev etc usr
do
if [ -d $d ]; then
cp -av $d /
fi
done
Thanks.
H.J.
hlu@eecs.wsu.edu
10/02/09