From: Michele Andreoli (m.andreoli@tin.it)
Date: Wed Apr 19 2000 - 14:13:49 CEST
On Wed, Apr 19, 2000 at 01:36:42PM +0200, Johannes Krausmüller nicely wrote:
> I've got a little question. Some days ago I read the following:
>
> it expects to run off the floppy (well, off a ramdisk actually)
> using a loop file on a DOS Hard disk for swap but I repartitioned and
> reformatted the hard disk as EXT2, transferred the contents of the
> floppies, did a little editing of inittab etc, ran lilo and that was
> it. Because the system is designed to run from a 2mb ramdisk, it finds
> the 200 mb disk space (minus the 16mb swap) very roomy indeed and it's
> pretty much a full single-workstation Linux ....
>
>
> This all sounds very good. But how to 'transfer the contents of the floppies' and which 'editing' has to be done.
> I hope anybody can help me with this problem.
>
Issue a /bin/clone command and select EXT2 cloning, specifying a spare
partitions. Then, use "liloconfig". Please, report problems.
Michele
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