Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 31 Dec 2004 20:32:47 +0100 | From | Willy Tarreau <> | Subject | Re: waiting 10s before mounting root filesystem? |
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On Wed, Dec 29, 2004 at 10:26:11PM +0100, Andreas Steinmetz wrote: > William Park wrote: > >I finally wrote a script to build 200MB root filesystem from Slackware > >distribution (A, AP, N, X series). And, now, you're telling me to build > >a 200kB root filesystem? I need beer... > > You don't need beer, you need busybox. The smallest initrd I made with > busybox is 99kB (finds boot cdrom and sets up a ram disk as rootfs).
Hmmm... Since we have the equivalent function in slightly less than 7 kB in Formilux, I think that I should document a bit more when I have some time so that others can reuse it... I find it a shame to still need 99 kB to find a CDROM, particularly when you need to put this on floppies.
Regards, Willy
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