Well, linux-tiny does do better, but so far it seems to have too many bugs in 2.6.14 for serious work. Many config setting I tried give compile errors, which seem to be related to unenforced dependencies, and even when I can get it to compile I have never had it actually work, erroring out in the boot process with "bad gzip magic number". But I have gotten unpatched 2.6.14 to work, with kexec, and successfully jumped into knoppix from a single floppy boot with all the tools I need. Thanks for the help, right now the -Os compile switch gets me there, and I will keep monitoring linux-tiny for additional progress.
Steve G.
Richard Smith wrote:
On 1/13/06, Steve Gehlbach steve@nexpath.com wrote:
Not sure, I am not familiar with that. But 2.4.32 comes in at around 948K with ext2/3, isofs, dosfs, usb/ms, and about a dozen network card
Linux-tiny may be able to beat that. The number in the orginal paper was a TCP/IP, ext2, PCI and 1 network card in 363k.
Give it a whirl and report back your results.
http://www.selenic.com/linux-tiny/
-- Richard A. Smith