custom boot disk

[Odhiambo Washington]

* Incoming Mail List <mailist at whoweb.com> [20040824 00:25]: wrote:
> 
> Can anyone provide a pointer to a good how-to on creating a customized
> bootable disk?  Specifically, I'm trying to understand:
> 
> 1) How do you create a 64mb (for example) memory file system as part
>    of the boot procedure?
> 
> 2) How do you instruct init to mount the newly created memory file
>    system and then populate via an image containing system files?
> 
> 3) How do you instruct init to start executing a specific shell or
>    "c" program once the memory file system is populated?

There is a project called FreeSBIE. You can start by looking at their
scripts!



-Wash

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