Messages in this thread | | | From | Rick Hohensee <> | Subject | new "distro", of possible interest | Date | Sat, 27 Mar 1999 13:27:59 +0100 (MET) |
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Hey Maestros
This version of cLIeNUX, a client-use Linux, is the one I'm going to start mouthing off about extensively, and I start here.
Some aspects of cLIeNUX may be of interest to some of you, so it's in good faith that I sway from the topic of this forum. I hope I don't bore you.
cLIeNUX loop installs with a 887k 2.2.3 kernel with every filesystem type and HD I could get in the image. dmesg is a mess. Hopefully a good portion of what's in there will actually work. This is because the bulk of cLIeNUX loop is a loopback file. It's 15 meg gzipped, 43 meg ready to mount. As such cLIeNUX should demo nicely on a lot of different x86 machines.
cLIeNUX is the core of a full distro that doesn't exist. cLIeNUX builds and maintains itself, including the GNU C-only tools. Although there's no X, cLIeNUX is quite useable for many kinds of development.
As an example of how cLIeNUX is different than other distros, the Root floppy has a little script that puts up 2 Bash'es, and includes the "manpages" for sh, mount, ld, cat and ed from the "UNIX Programmer's Manual", AT&T 1971. Yes, 1971. With dmr's permission.
cLIeNUX is different.
Begin3 Title: loopcLIeNUX Version: 19990325 Entered-date: 19990325 Description: client-use-oriented Linux distribution. self-maintaining GNU/Linux with C-only gcc, runs and builds 2.2 kernels. Lots of documentation in HTML, no X, uses loopback file to demo or install from many different filesystem types. Much simplified from other distros.
cLIeNUX attempts to provide docs in contexts where they are most needed. As such, you are looking at the beginning of the installation instructions. cLIeNUX loop consists of 3 files, cLoop.gz, cBoot and cRoot. The latter two are install floppy images. You write them to floppies with dd or rawrite.exe, boot with the cBoot floppy, and follow the instructions from there. Other notes in INSTALL.ASC cLoop.gz will be visible from any filesystem type that is readable by the Linux 2.2 kernel, which probably includes the filesystem of your current OS. cLoop.gz can also be unzipped and mounted by Linux as is. Included; Lynx, zgv, sc, modules, 2.2.3 kernel, libc5, EPIC/splitfire, gforth, slrn, pmail, pppsetup, SVGATextMode, Dvorak and azerty install
Keywords: client simplified self-documenting newbie distribution
Author: humbubba@smart.net (Rick Hohensee) Maintained-by: humbubba@smart.net (Rick Hohensee) Primary-site: ftp.blueznet.com /pub/colorg/
Alternate-site: metalab.unc.edu/pub/linux/distributions/cLIeNUX/
* 4k INSTALL.ASC 8M cLIeNUX-19980926.tar * 15M cLoop.gz 2k cLIeNUX.lsm * 2k loopcLIeNUX.lsm * 950k cBoot * 1200k cRoot
## * It's not on metalab at this writing. It is on .... ##ftp://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/linux/install/clienux/
Original-site: http://cqi.com/~humbubba Platforms: 386-compatible computer, 12 meg RAM, 43 meg HD, 100 meg HD needed temporarily at install time, floppy drive.
Copying-policy: various; some cLIeNUX-specific materials limited to redistribution only in a whole intact cLIeNUX End
Rick Hohensee from a spiffy new shell in .de :o) best to reply to humbubba@smart.net
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