On Fri, 17 Aug 2001, S. Massy wrote: > I believe it is called syslinux; it lives on a FAT16 floppy and you can have yes, that's the one I was looking for. > either one kernel/root floppy or one kernel and one root (two floppies > system.), all this from memory, so maybe I've missed a few details. > That's right, you can get a shell right from the boot floppies and the > installation from CD is just an option, you can also install from a network, > so I assume there must be a minimal set of network utilities as well. Correct, even pcmcia seems available althugh I had trouble the last time running tat on my laptop. > BTW, there are now some utilities designed especially for floppies or > rescue situations. I'm thinking of sash here (stand alone shell, if I > remember correctly) which is a statically linked shell with essential > utilities such as ls/cp/dd built in; I think it even has a version of > tar built in. Also there's another small binary which is meant to > replace several utilities, again here utilities such as ls, cp, etc; I > believe it reacts differently depending under what name it is invoked, > but I forgot what it's called. That sort of utils can make building > rescue floppies much easier. sash is indeed the stand-alone shell. You have to look at the deb-root.bin there's a tar-binary. We used them once to distirbute a disk-image to 14 notes of a small linux-cluster. slainte mhaith (good health), slainte (cheers) Uisce Beatha (water of live/health) ----------- Andor Demarteau E-mail: ademarte@students.cs.uu.nl student computer science www: http://www.students.cs.uu.nl/~ademarte/ Utrecht University irc: see webpage for details ----------- Believe in yourself, know what you want, and make it happen!