tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19149945.post1114286350491322906..comments2023-07-04T03:14:07.334-06:00Comments on BlogFranz: 10 Days of Trinux, 9 Years LaterMatt Franzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00973881935128108475noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19149945.post-90139345569055524622009-08-04T02:59:18.294-06:002009-08-04T02:59:18.294-06:00Hi. Could you write about the process you use to ...Hi. Could you write about the process you use to prepare pkgs for trinux? Do you start with slackware binaries?<br />I use NetBSD but I need LInux for a few things. I am happy to recently try trinux. It's booting fast in qemu. Previously I was using sysrescuecd (Gentoo-based). But your setup (RAM-based only, and a pkglist loaded on boot) is more my style: simplicity.<br />Could you write about how you prepare pkgs? I like how you've stripped out the cruft (man pages, etc.). Your philosophy is good: Knoppix and it's silly terminology and CDROM-centricity sent us down a unnecessary path. We need RAM-based *and* simple enough to add/remove pkgs easily. I can do this in *BSD, but Linux has been not so easy. Cheers!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19149945.post-1389343530065617342008-04-15T22:14:00.000-06:002008-04-15T22:14:00.000-06:00Yeah, I seem to have issues putting minimal kernel...Yeah, I seem to have issues putting minimal kernel builds onto a floopy. Why not go USB though? I had great luck putting PuppyLinux onto a USB drive. Hell, you can almost fit a whole distro on a USB stick these days.<BR/><BR/>-Jim<BR/><A HREF="http://www.linuxelite.com/" REL="nofollow">Linux Elite</A>Cryhavochttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17024738894987319857noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19149945.post-25647434590447088002007-09-29T22:58:00.000-06:002007-09-29T22:58:00.000-06:00I appreciate your work I am a new comer to this fi...I appreciate your work I am a new comer to this field but this sort of projects help in learning a lotRegistered Userhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05992525283536677187noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19149945.post-64441047416591455192007-06-18T20:34:00.000-06:002007-06-18T20:34:00.000-06:00Well it is a combination of a technical and a time...Well it is a combination of a technical and a time issues. I suppose tt might be possible using Busybox compiled with uClibc and a completely bare 2.6.x kernel (no networking or fileystem support) to fit on a floppy. There was tremendous about of modularization (is that a word?) that went into the 2.2/2.4 Trinux floppy builds that was very tedious time consuming.Matt Franzhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00973881935128108475noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19149945.post-43474110543615591102007-06-18T20:05:00.000-06:002007-06-18T20:05:00.000-06:00Hi Matt,Do you know whether the ubuntutrinux no lo...Hi Matt,<BR/><BR/>Do you know whether the ubuntutrinux no longer supports floppy booting is a technical problem with the recent kernels too big to fit?<BR/>I just loved the single-floppy booting with the original trinux. But I also like the Debianizing of your concept of trinux.<BR/>Thank you!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com