making floppy systems

[fred anger]

On Fri, 1 Sep 2000, Adi Linden wrote:
> Building a compressed ramdisk to fit on a floppy is no problem especially
> if you use the tinylogin/busybox combination.
> 
> So far I've been doing the task of building the ramdisk and loading the
> kernel and ramdisk onto the floppy by hand.

Is this after configuring the packages with pwlconfig?  Care to share the
steps for this task :)

> I have some scanned pages of my notebook (pen and pencil notebook)
> from the early beginnings of my embedded systems building experience.
> Have a look at it and see if it makes sense.
>  
> http://adis.on.ca/BlackBook/bootdisk1.jpeg
> http://adis.on.ca/BlackBook/bootdisk2.jpeg
> http://adis.on.ca/BlackBook/bootdisk3.jpeg
> 
> I can take the relevant portions out of it and write some quick
> instructions of how to load a filesystem build using pwlconfig and located
> in Embedded_Build/projects/<your project name>/mnt onto a floppy disk.

That would be much appreciated!

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