bootable Redhat based CD?

[Bruce Marshall]

On Wednesday 11 June 2003 13:35 pm, Net Llama! wrote:
> On Tue, 10 Jun 2003, Bruce Marshall wrote:
> > On Tuesday 10 June 2003 17:50, Net Llama! wrote:
> > > I've spend the better part of the past week exploring the varios
> > > options & suggestions, but i'm not making much progress.  The
> > > closest i've come to success is a CD that booted as far as not
> > > finding init (even though there was an inittab on the CD).
> > >
> > > Does anyone know where there might be decent SxS style
> > > documentation on how to create a Knoppix style CD from scratch?  I
> > > looked at for various HOWTO's but they're not quite sinking in.
> >
> > Just a thought but have you looked at Bernard's bootable linux on
> > freshmeat?
> >
> > freshmeat.net/projects/bblcd/?topic_id=147%2C866
> >
> > It has all you need to build a bootable CD from your currently
> > running distro.
> >
> > I did this once on an SuSE distro and it worked pretty well.  I
> > think it needs the minix fs though but that's pretty easy to add to
> > the kernel.
>
> That looks promising, thanks.  Does it need minix support compiled
> into the kernel, or just as a module?


Reading the FAQ at:  http://bblcd.berlios.de/faq.html

seems to indicate that:

1) The initrd FS can now be minix or ext2  so make it ext2.

2) Minix is still required (for space reasons) but if the initrd is ext2, 
then the minix support can be in modules.

3)  The initrd support must be compiled into the kernel.


At least that was my take on a quick read.



Don't recall....  but I would think the notes would cover that.  I would 
guess it would need minix for reading the kernel early on and it may not 
have an initrd environment but not sure on that.


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