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[sindi keesan <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>]

It sounds like doing this manually would be easier than learning how to 
make a boot/root disk.  So I would load the first disk, Ctrl-C, copy links 
and the modules from a loop or full 2-floppy BL3 to a DOS floppy disk, 
delete what I don't want from the files that got into the first ramdisk, 
umount /usr/X11R6, copy over links and the needed modules, then try 
running BL3 with links in the computer with 8MB RAM.

It ought to work at least as well as running Bl3 from loop in a 386 with 
5MB RAM, apart from having less 'disk' space.

On Mon, 13 Dec 2004 3aoo-cvfd AT dea.spamcon.org wrote:

> sindi keesan wrote:
> > I just wanted to change the disk1.gz to
> > include no X and some modules.  Would the
> > method be similar to what is used to modify
> > bl2 which boots from hd to ramdisk?
>
> No, nothing like that at all.  disk1.img is *much*
> more complex.
>
> > Would I just modify the files, make a new file
> > image (or whatever it is called) and compress it
> > to disk.tgz and copy it back over the old one?
>
> Nope.
>
> > How do you make a disk1 image?  I don't really need
> > to run linux from 1 floppy disk on an 8MB computer but
> > I would learn something from this.
>
> Everything you need to know is in the Bootdisk-HOWTO.

I am probably several years away from understanding even the vocabulary 
there.  It is still 'magic'.

> > Someone could modify the installation routine to only
> > make the second RAMdisk if there is more than 8MB RAM,
>
> Same problem.  The routine is on the first floppy.
> To edit the routine, you need to extract the root
> filesystem from the first floppy (not easy).  You
> then need to recreate the first floppy with the
> modified root filesystem (not easy).


Instead of extracting a root filesystem, is it possible to copy the file 
system that ends up  in ram0 after deleting and adding things to a file 
something like baslinux.gz, copy it to hard drive, split it into two 
files if needed to get it to floppy disk, and load that with loadlin?
I am looking for a way to run BL3 in 8MB RAM, if not from just 1 floppy 
disk.

> Cheers,
> Steven