The CF looks like a hard drive to the system. So a lilo, grub or a syslinux boot is possible. I currently have a development system setup with a 40gb hard drive and the compact flash drive. What I am working on doing is installing a complete bootable system on the flash disk, so I don't want to use redhat's installer and I hadn't thought about creating my own installer. I think I have enough information now to create the image. Thank you for your help. On Thu, 2004-02-05 at 12:22, Skahan, Vince wrote: > Depends on how you're installing it, > how big your flash is, and what format > you install into. > > Do you kickstart (ie, the flash looks like > a normally installed spinning disk) ? > > Do you roll your own installer and do something > that looks more like a boot floppy initrd-based > installation ? > > If you roll your own installer, you can get > redhat9 down to about 100 rpms taking under > 50MB after installation, if you do some post > processing to strip more stuff out. > > -- vince.skahan@xxxxxxxxxx -- Cabin Network -- > connexion by Boeing sm > www.connexionbyboeing.com > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Ronald Reed [mailto:rreed@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] > Sent: Thursday, February 05, 2004 8:02 AM > To: Kickstart-list@xxxxxxxxxx > Subject: RedHat 9 on a CF Disk > > > Does anyone have a list of the minimal packages that are needed to > install Redhat 9? I am working on making a bootable Redhat 9 distro on a > Compact Flash disk drive. -- =========================== Ron Reed RedHat Certified Engineer Unix Systems Administrator ARM SGP CART Site (580)388-4053 ron.reed@xxxxxxx
