[svlug] mroe rh-7.0 fun - tomsrtbt

Alvin Oga alvin at planet.fef.com
Thu Mar 15 18:08:03 PST 2001


hi ya..

its fairly easy and straight forward to make your own version
of toms rtbt disks to boot your flavor of linux that only needs
a floppy to do everything you need...

the collection of stuff that needs to be tweek ..in a unorganized
location
	http://www.linux-consulting.com/Boot

c ya
alvin

> Dagmar d'Surreal wrote:
> 
> On Thu, 15 Mar 2001, Charles Peterman wrote:
> 
> > 
> > You might run into difficulty doing this with toms rtbt.  It uses the
> > entirety of the disk (1.714 MB, if memory serves) so grafting new things 
> > in there might be dificult.   Someone on one of th lists said that the
> > actual layout of the disk showed considerable hand tweaking
> > 
> > I have not evaluated these claims myself.
> 
> I don't know if it's still up, but as of a year ago Tom had very detailed
> information up about how he put the set together, and I actually found the
> documentation handy for making recovery and forensics disk at the
> time.  It's complex to get everything stuffed into the available space,
> but not so complex that it takes a kernel tweaker to figure it out.
> 





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