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Re: [RULE] Boot-floppy detect.
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Michael Fratoni |
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Re: [RULE] Boot-floppy detect. |
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Wed, 22 Jan 2003 23:27:11 -0500 |
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On Wednesday 22 January 2003 03:57 pm, M. Fioretti wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 22, 2003 02:13:20 at 02:13:20AM -0500, Fratoni Michael
> > You'd need about 800k of space available (share and sbin, above).
> > However, there are probably plenty of ways it could still be made
> > useful. Let me know if you're interested.
>
> I have never heard of detect before, and am really sleepy tonight, so
> maybe is a stupid idea, but couldn't this "hw detection toolkit" stay
> in two floppies? Would it be acceptable? Something like:
It could be on two floppies, but that adds unneeded complexity.
Much easier if the user could just boot and shutdown with no
interaction....
Having had some time to consider this, and work through various
possibilities, I had an idea.
So, without further delay:
I'm announcing slinky-detect(version-0.0.1), the bootable hardware
detection boot disk. ;)
http://www.tuxfan.homeip.net:8080/rule/slinky/slinky-detect/slinky-detect.img
Create a bootable floppy:
dd if=slinky-detect.img of=/dev/fd0 bs=1440k
Boot from it, the system starts, runs detect, and writes the output to the
boot floppy (as report.txt). The system can then be powered down, as no
disks are mounted. Overall startup to shutdown should be about 1 or 2
minutes. (We are booting from a floppy, after all.)
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- -Michael
pgp key: http://www.tuxfan.homeip.net:8080/gpgkey.txt
Red Hat Linux 7.{2,3}|8.0 in 8M of RAM: http://www.rule-project.org/
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- Re: [RULE] Introduction., (continued)
- [RULE] Boot-floppy detect., Vegard Munthe, 2003/01/21
- Re: [RULE] Boot-floppy detect., Michael Fratoni, 2003/01/22
- Re: [RULE] Boot-floppy detect., M. Fioretti, 2003/01/22
- Re: [RULE] Boot-floppy detect.,
Michael Fratoni <=
- Re: [RULE] Boot-floppy detect., Vegard Munthe, 2003/01/23
- Re: [RULE] Boot-floppy detect., Michael Fratoni, 2003/01/23
- Re: [RULE] Boot-floppy detect., Michael Fratoni, 2003/01/23
- Re: [RULE] Boot-floppy detect., Vegard Munthe, 2003/01/24
- Re: [RULE] Boot-floppy detect., Martin Stricker, 2003/01/24
- Re: [RULE] Boot-floppy detect., Michael Fratoni, 2003/01/24
- Re: [RULE] Boot-floppy detect., Vegard Munthe, 2003/01/26
- Re: [RULE] Boot-floppy detect., Michael Fratoni, 2003/01/26
- Re: [RULE] Boot-floppy detect., Vegard Munthe, 2003/01/27
- Re: [RULE] Boot-floppy detect., Martin Stricker, 2003/01/26