From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Paul Nasrat Subject: Re: thanks for ur help.... Date: Tue, 1 Oct 2002 11:19:32 +0100 Sender: linux-8086-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <20021001101931.GD13367@raq465.uk2net.com> References: <3D92C93A.F9C6CB0A@yahoo.it> Mime-Version: 1.0 Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: ELKS mailing list 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