Message-ID: <3569cec2.flying-brick@flying-brick.caverock.net.nz>
From: Eric Gillespie <viking AT flying-brick DOT caverock DOT co DOT nz>
To: OpenDos Mailing List <opendos AT delorie DOT com>
Date:          Tue, 26 May 1998 09:04:16 NZT-12DST
Subject:       Re: The tale of Linux on 30 Megs
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Captains Log, Stardate  20 May 98 10:47, Eric Gillespie:

: Meanwhile, I'm just having fun _manually_ trying to install Redhat from a
: non- cooperative CD-ROM onto 20 megs - I've got as far as plonking a few
: binaries and some libraries on drive, now I just have to work out how to
: make cm206cd work as a block device...once I get _that_ problem sorted
: out, I'll be sweet. Of course then, I have to find an ESDI controller for
: my 380 M ESDI drive...

Well, I haven't got ESDI yet, but got RedHat working (barely) in 30 megs of 
drive by manually unzipping the ramdisk image, editing with my friendly 
Nortons Disk Doctor, and re-zipping the image, transferring it to floppy.

I was finally able to mount the CD and install the minimum required packages.
Anyway, I then decided to sacrifice another 40 meg HD to give me some more 
room.

Well! After that effort, it was almost a snap to rearrange things so that my 
second drive was the /usr partition, and add full mail/UUCP/PPP to the 
package.  After that, I found I was also able to dd the ramdisk image into 
ramdisk, mount it, and make alterations...then gzip it back up and dd it back 
to the disk.  Almost made Linux friendly...

Only what I _didn't_ know was that just around the corner, my /usr 
drive was going to die on me (funny that!) and I would be back to 30 megs 
again 8-(  So now I'm back to writing this on Pegasus Mailer, my favourite 
program.

Ooops, I haven't exactly kept this on topic, have I?? Right - can I have an 
unmistakeable answer to this question?  Does DOSEMU _have_ to have an X 
library to run, or can it run using _just_ the tty console, with no X 
involved?  Also, what else would I need (aside from more HD space 8-) to run 
OpenDos 7.01/DrDos 7.02  reliably including, say, DJGPP?

Thanks.
The Viking


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