On Fri, 13 Apr 2001, J Hayward forwarded:
> I need to install RH 6.x on a system using a small (128Mb)
> IDE FLASH drive. I cannot use a regular hard drive since
> this system will be placed in a high altitude balloon with
> no presureized or heated cabin for the hard drive.
Cool.
> For development, I can attach a floppy and network drop to
> the flight hardware. I used the RH 6.1 bootnet.img floppy
> install method and got as far as installing the various
> packages. The intall stops as says I need more disk space.
> I turned off all possible packages, but it still needs at
> least 135Mb. Remember, there is only 128Mb total.
One problem with the RH install is that there is no way to prevent
the installation of man pages and docs. I got a 6.1 installation
in about 150M, then deleted the docs. It's down to about 145M.
I'm sure there are other packages that I could delete (this is basically a
router/firewall), but I'd have to work at it.
My suggestion would be to load the system onto a regular drive, then
prune docs and packages until it fits, then transfer what's left to the
FLASH, run lilo for the FLASH, and you should be set to go.
The other possibility would be to look at the kickstart utility. That
allows you to define many properties of an install. Unfortunately,
I can't advise you there.
> I need for the system (Pentium based CPCI based system) to
> boot up, load a couple kernal device drivers and then run
> one program without any operator intervention. The data
> will be collected and written to the FLASH drive and
> transmitted via radio to the ground station.
>
> The development will be done on another system and the final
> executable files transfered to the flight system. Thus, I
> do not need any development support tools on the flight
> system.
Matthew Saltzman
Clemson University Math Sciences
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http://www.math.clemson.edu/~mjs
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