how to make a bootable linux on doc millennium

how to make a bootable linux on doc millennium

[cytang]

After half day's effort, I finally make my doc
millennium recognized in new kernel .
Then I want to make it a mini bootable system .
But I am a newbie ,not familiar with this .
I know here somebody must have experience with it. So
I wanna get your help.
  my aim is just to build a mini system which can boot
off my doc . I dont know whether 8M space of Doc  is
enough . How can I make such a small system ,and can
boot form doc?  
 sorry for my awful english because it's not my native language.

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Re: how to make a bootable linux on doc millennium

[Marius Groeger]

On Wed, 22 May 2002, [gb2312] cytang wrote:

>   my aim is just to build a mini system which can boot
> off my doc . I dont know whether 8M space of Doc  is
> enough . How can I make such a small system ,and can
> boot form doc?

I never got around trying this, but there seem to be two options to do
this:

- There are patches for LILO to make it work with DOC devices

- There are patches for the GRUB bootloader to make it work with DOC
  devices

Regards,
Marius

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Re: how to make a bootable linux on doc millennium

[Mark Meade]

On Wed, 22 May 2002, [gb2312] cytang wrote:

>   my aim is just to build a mini system which can boot
> off my doc . I dont know whether 8M space of Doc  is
> enough . How can I make such a small system ,and can
> boot form doc?

Marius is correct - both LILO and patched GRUB can make the DOC Millennium 
bootable.  8MB is more than enough space for a small system.

I used a package called "Peewee Linux" (GPL-license) to set up my DOC Mil.  
It currently uses 2.2 kernels, but it is possible to use a custom kernel -- 
in my case, a 2.4.18 with the MTD drivers.

Mark