[RULE] Thoughts on new slinky installer for FC2

[C David Rigby]

I just posted this message under another subject line due to ignoring 
Marco's advice to Gabriel about "don't use reply - use compose!"  So 
here it is again with a new subject.

CDR

C David Rigby wrote:
> Michael Fratoni wrote:
>
> > Slightly more difficult. The older rpm is statically linked, and fairly
> > small. The newer versions of rpm, I haven't been able to build a
> > statically linked binary. There just isn't room on the image for the
> > binary and the libraries required by the newer versions of RPM. If anyone
> > has time to look into building a statically linked binary of a current
> > version of rpm, by all means, have at it. If someone gets it built, I'll
> > find a way to squeeze it into the disk image.
> >
> > - --
> > - -Michael
>
>
> I have been thinking about this a bit.  My experimentation has not gone 
> very far yet (I have managed to build a 2.6.6 kernel for i386 from plain 
> vanilla sources, but the Fedora kernel-source-2.6.5-1.358 compilation is 
> still dying on me).  Since, if booting from floppy, we have to use two 
> diskettes as it is, why not create a boot diskette with a kernel 
> including as many drivers as possible and still fitting on a single 
> floppy, then a separate compressed root filesystem on a 2nd floppy which 
> includes the slinky scripts?  This would give us a larger root 
> filesystem than currently possible with combined kernel + rootfs.gz on 
> the current first disk.  I will have to experiment a bit to see what is 
> possible, what fits, and if it will still run in 16MB of RAM.  I can 
> build plain-vanilla kernels on my faster desktop system, but I have FC2 
> installed only on my P166 notebook, so it is a slow process using the 
> RedHat sources there.
>
> CDR
>
>
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