[pocket-linux] back in the saddle again ...

[David Horton]

rainer wrote:

> hello,
>
> i went through this project a couple of years and it worked out pretty 
> well. had to load the mp3 player at the end of the project manually 
> but it still worked. got the last version of Basic Linux recently and 
> got nostalgic for the mini distro and floppies. and, frankly, i've 
> forgotten half of what i learned here.
>
> so, hopefully i can see this thing through a second time. finished 
> part 1 alright - i see we're using grub now! used the 2.4.28 lowmem 
> config from slackware as a starting point for the kernel (changed 
> ramdisk to 4096!- why is the default 7777?, why not 666?) compiled 4 
> sound chips into the kernel, i want this PL to work on all my 
> computers. does the emu10k1 (for the audigy card) work with oss, i 
> couldn't get it to work last time?
>
> i followed the PL  mailing list for quite some time and i believe the 
> issue of giving it network capabilities was discussed. is it feasible 
> to include support for the internet, dial up at least?
>
> thanks

Hi,

I did manage to put together a utility diskette with TFTP capability.  
My reason for doing this was to have a boot/root disk set that could be 
used to partition hard disks, mirror them, create a filesystem, fetch 
tar.gz packages from a LAN-based server and decompress them onto the 
newly created filesystem.  That way I can install my own Linux system 
using binary packages built with the architect tookit. 
[http://www.happy-monkey.net/architect/]  The documentation for the 
diskset is at: 
http://www.happy-monkey.net/architect/docs/install-media.html.  It's not 
complete, but anyone who has built the pocket linux system should be 
able to fill in the blanks pretty easily.

Dave