Re: thanks for ur help....

[Paul Nasrat <pauln@truemesh.com>]

On Tue, Oct 01, 2002 at 02:14:49PM +0530, Seemanta Dutta wrote:
> thanks for ur reply..ur mail helped me a lot...if u had not replied i
> would never have been able to finish my seminar presentation with a demo
> of ELKS....

That's good - maybe you could post your seminar paper up somewhere.
I've got some slides from my LUG presentation which I'll put up at some
point too..

> 
> i have created my own ELKS kernel image...but how do i create my root
> disk?
> using loopback?? but then what abt ramdisk word and other issues abt size
> and libraries..??

The real catch is creating the correct file format

You need to create a Minix v1 fs.

1) dd if=/dev/zero of=root bs=1024 count=1440
2) /sbin/mkfs.minix -n14 root 1440

You can then mount this via loopback.

Populating the filesystem I suggest you look at the images from Harry's
site and use the filesystems as a base

http://rainbow.cs.unipi.gr/~harkal/ELKS/images/

You can also look at the elkscmd for the root_template and the device
numbers, but this isn't working for me in cvs atm.

I made a larger root image to hold the net stuff, and put some odds and
ends on it - I make a rootfs with Adventure on it but there are still
some bugs with input so not playable.

Paul