Hello all, I would like to announce a new project. The projects homepage is at http://gate-bunker.p6.msu.ru/~berk/router.html.
My goal was to take Debian and make it boot from flash and work from filesystem in memory, but to do it very carefully to change as little as possible. What comes out is not a debian-based distribution but rather a boot wrapper for Debian proper. It is intended for diskless routers. Features: This is Debian stable with some packages from testing to add support for 2.5 kernels. It boots from flash and works from memory. It boots in two stages: first a script from initrd copies the root filesystem from flash to tmpfs and makes tmpfs new root, then init runs as usual. It comes with a custom packaged 2.4 kernel with extended networking capabilities. The custom kernel includes modules for many ethernet cards, which are autodetected during bootup. The system can be upgraded and additional packages can be installed from regular Debian mirrors. New precompiled kernels can be installed as debian packages from our distribution site. Feedback is welcome. Thanks, -- Vadim Berkgaut
