It sounds to me as if you are far more knowledgeable in *nix's than
I am, but have you heard of the micro-linuxes that fit on one
floppy disk? Try micro +linux as keywords on the searchers. Also
look for tomsrtbt, which might just do what you need.
Hi Folks,
I wonder if I could get a little advise?
I am using redhat 6.2 on an intel 686 where I'm attempting to build a
couple of floppy diskette images to enable me to boot into single user
mode to do filesystem recovery, etc. (I don't have access to a cdrom at
this stage)
I have created the boot disk and the root disk however I am having a
little trouble with the root filesystem and the diskette size limitation
....
The compressed root filesystem won't fit on the floppy (I have read the
bootdisk HOWTO and seriously reduced the image but I guess this is where
my problem lies - missing pam libs).
At this stage I get the login prompt when booting from the boot aand
root diskettes but it seems like the user authentication fails (I can't
login, I get "login incorrect" messages).
This leads me to two questions:
1 can I disable login/pam altogether as in the lilo "linux single"
scenario (the PAM libraries take up a bundle of valuable space)
2 At one stage I attempted using mkbootdisk which resulted in a diskette
boot using the /dev/hd? root filesystem (I need it to be independant of
the hard disk).
Any help would be graciously appreciated.
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