On Fri, 2003-12-05 at 08:54, Alain Knaff wrote:
Again, such a technique will work for PXE and for CD-Rom boot. However, for floppy, the resulting image will be hopelessly oversized...
We wrote a simple script called "wizzybox" which downloads binaries from a web server to the client's RAM disk on demand as part of our "Pre-Installation Environment".
That way we have a floppy image (or PXE, ISO, etc) which has access to vi, hdparm, lynx, curl, iptables, more kernel modules, etc, etc but still fits on a single floppy.
See http://pie.ucs.ed.ac.uk/ for more details.
Cheers,
Kenny.