Re: root disk!

[Paul Nasrat <pauln@truemesh.com>]

On Mon, Oct 14, 2002 at 11:49:15AM -0600, Miguel Bolanos wrote:
> Hi all!
> 
> i have been trying to create an elks root disk, but when i run 'make root'
> on the elkscmd dir, it mounts the minixfs to /mnt/elks/ it runs the script
> /mnt/elks/dev/MAKEDEV, but it gets executed i get the folling error:

Umm, yes elkscmd is a bit b0rked atm - keep meaning to look at it.

It's halfway between being runnable on elks itself - hence /bin/test and
calls to MAKESET, etc.  

I've haven't been using elkscmd, rather I've make a minix filesystem
using 

dd if=/dev/zero of=myroot bs=1024 count=1440
/sbin/mkfs.minix -n14 myroot 1440
mount -t minix -o loop myroot /mnt/elks

Then I take harry's prebuilt image (link on elks.sf.net) and mount that.

mount -t minix -o loop root /mnt/elksroot

Use rsync/cp to replicate the filesystem and add my own binaries on as
necessary.

 
> 2 additional things that i would like to mention is that i have realized
> is that the current documentation on how to create root disks for elks is
> not good enought i have found some issues that are not documented, such
> as... /mnt/elks must exist because it is needed to mount the minixfs

Umm, there are two other ways of making elkscmd images other than via
loopback - ramdisk and floppy.  I haven't tried either but they're in
the Make.defs file for elkscmd.

> there, the error is very obvious but still i belive it should be on the
> papers, as well i found that it runs /bin/test, but test is actually a is
> a shell builtin so of course it cant be found under that path, solved this
> by creating a dummy script under /bin/test:

Test isn't built in for ash/sash the shells that elks use, MAKESET is an
elks shell based script rather than a bash script.  I guess just using
test would work as elks will have /bin in the PATH and bash will do the
right thing.

If I have time I'll have a poke around elkscmd tomorrow.

If you want a root disk - grab the images from Harry's site, if you want
to customise one, you can do so by following my instructions.

Paul