Eric W. Biederman wrote:
The intro page lists kboot-9 as being only 39K.
That's just the tar ball. It pulls in (downloads) lots of other things. A realistic size for the initramfs (compressed) is about 400-500 kB with uclibc. Depending on what you need and how much time you want to spend tweaking things, you can reduce this some more, e.g., by dropping things like dropbear.
I once had a complete kboot system (kernel with networking plus initramfs) on a 1.44MB floppy. I don't remember the exact feature set, though. It was used to load the initial Gentoo tarball over the network onto an OQO which had stubbornly refused from anything but that ancient USB floppy.
Unfortunately I haven't had a chance to build it yet. (Sorry Werner).
Lately, I've had a bit of a time shortage myself :-( I expect kboot to pick up some more speed towards the end of the month, though.
- Werner