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Date: Fri, 31 Dec 2004 20:32:47 +0100
From: Willy Tarreau <willy@w.ods.org>
To: Andreas Steinmetz <ast@domdv.de>
Cc: William Park <opengeometry@yahoo.ca>,
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Subject: Re: waiting 10s before mounting root filesystem?
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On Wed, Dec 29, 2004 at 10:26:11PM +0100, Andreas Steinmetz wrote:
> William Park wrote:
> >I finally wrote a script to build 200MB root filesystem from Slackware
> >distribution (A, AP, N, X series).  And, now, you're telling me to build
> >a 200kB root filesystem?  I need beer...
> 
> You don't need beer, you need busybox. The smallest initrd I made with 
> busybox is 99kB (finds boot cdrom and sets up a ram disk as rootfs).

Hmmm... Since we have the equivalent function in slightly less than 7 kB in
Formilux, I think that I should document a bit more when I have some time so
that others can reuse it... I find it a shame to still need 99 kB to find a
CDROM, particularly when you need to put this on floppies.

Regards,
Willy