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  • Subject: Re: [BL] floppy version
  • Date: Mon, 4 Jun 2007 14:53:48 +0000 (UTC)

On Mon, 4 Jun 2007 baslinux AT lists.ibiblio.org wrote:

Message from Steven
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Sindi wrote:

forcing me to use a mouse until I get xmodmap
and a map copied to the free space on disk 2,

There's no need to copy xmodmap. It's already
part of BL3. See: /usr/X11R6/bin/xmodmap

Thanks.

modules are too large for the free space

I think there's now more free space on the
second floppy: 51kb. Is that enough?
Otherwise you could unpack disk2.tgz, delete
the modules you don't need, add the modules
you want, repack it and copy it to disk 2.

2.2.26 lucent modules (by Stephen Clement?):
lt_modem.o 415251
lt_serial.o 23633

(2.2.16 modules are even larger)

Our latest laptop is a Compaq Presario with onboard lucent 56K modem, and some crazy Cyrix cpu that is rated 233MHz but controls sound, video, and memory which slows it to 120MHz actual. I think it has OSS-compatible sound (CS?). We put in our 500MB hd (hd and cage were missing) and it is overkill for BL3, even compiling. Someone upgraded it to 96MB RAM.


I see there is a video item on the menu which
lists other modes, but no obvious suggestion
that I noticed of how to set up with them.
Maybe I missed that. (I know I can edit Xconfig,
but is that option listed in the jwm menu some
place?).

Edit settings > Xvesa parameters

I missed that. But why not have more options in Xsetup?
I know older laptops only do 640 or 800 resolution but I use the floppy disk version in friends' desktop computers.

Could I use the lucent and ethernet modules and
msmtp and xmodmap from a third floppy disk if I
have enough RAM?

You've got 1.3mb available on the current ramdisk.

msmtp glibc is only 60K (no encryption). Maybe I can make that much space on disk2 (by deleting some module) for a libc5 version when I get it compiled. 226K for the static version.

That and lucent modules should fit in 1.3MB.

Did you suggest putting extra modules and executables on a third disk, somewhere on the BL page or in the readme file from the fd zip file?

If you need more, you can create an additional
4mb ramdisk:
--------------------------------------
mke2fs /dev/ram2 4096
mount -t ext2 /dev/ram2 /usr/local/bin
--------------------------------------
In the above example, I mounted the ramdisk at
/usr/local/bin so that it would be in the PATH,
but you can mount it anywhere (/mnt /tmp /hd
or wherever you want).

Is this some place in the instructions or the jwm menu?

I will try this now from ext2 BL2.

mke2fs /dev/ram0 4096

Does the kernel allow 4096 as the maximum size ramdisk, and can I make more than one extra ramdisk? I tried 8192 and got 'Filesystem larger than apparently filesystem size'. My BL2 kernel is modeled on yours with the same ramdisk settings.

It tells me (1 sec to do this):

Filesystem label=
OS type: Linux
Block size=1024 (log=0)
1024 inodes, 4096 blocks
(etc.)
Writing inode tables: done
Writing superblocks (etc.)

I already had a /usr/local/bin (in BL2). 'ls' lists the files which were already there.

How do I copy files to ramdisk? Do I do anything special, or does this just make more space to copy executables to (cp msmtp /usr/local/bin)? I think I could also copy modules to /usr/local/bin and then insmod /usr/local/bin/lt_modem.o (including the path and the .o). Or just run programs and insmod modules from /mnt or specify the path.

Next project is to set up to compile for libc5.

There are several messages in the archives about
doing this. If you can't find them, let me know
and I go over it again.

I had BL1 compiling on a laptop with 12MB RAM. Worked fine to compile a kermit without ncurses.

Do you or anyone else want to compile libc5 msmtp (small, no encryption, just for ISPs that now insist on SMTP authorization) and maybe a larger nano as BL3-50 add-ons for the FD version? I use glibc versions in ext2 BL3.

First I want to add Opera 8 to BL3.50. Something went wrong when I last tried. Ldd was missing some X libraries that were there. I had added the glibc ones from BL3.40 where it all worked, rather than your libc5 ones. Do you have Opera 8 working with BL3.50 yet?


My partner asks about putting extra files on his USB flash drive (or camera). I will check if David Moberg's 1-floppy USB linux can make an extra 4MB ramdisk (or two) so we can copy files to it from a flash drive instead of chrooting to a loop linux on the flash drive.

Sindi

Cheers,
Steven




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