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commit: a029d8dd0c14ea379754a695782cca6f58bdaf6b
parent ad36cc4ecf9b79a2f5608f5d33c30d52ef1fe344
Author: Haelwenn (lanodan) Monnier <contact@hacktivis.me>
Date:   Wed, 10 Apr 2019 17:31:09 +0200

articles/Install Gentoo via Floppy: Fixes

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diff --git a/articles/Install Gentoo via Floppy.xhtml b/articles/Install Gentoo via Floppy.xhtml @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ <article xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en" class="h-entry"> -<a href="/articles/My%20email%20setup"><h1>Install Gentoo via Floppy</h1></a> +<a href="/articles/Install%20Gentoo%20via%20Floppy"><h1>Install Gentoo via Floppy</h1></a> <p>Okay, so here are the files I generated for it:</p> <ul> <li><a href="https://lanodan.eu/pastes/2019-04-10T15:26:10-make-initrd-smol.sh">make-initrd-smol.sh</a>: a slightly modified version of make-initrd to only copy a static busybox</li> @@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ <li>Graphics: reuses the VGA framebuffer</li> <li>Compression: XZ on kernel + initramfs</li> </ul> -<p>Note: The permissions for the <code>/dev</code> files are wrong, which is probably why udhcpc is broken. And it requires you to put <code>FEATURES="-userfetch"</code> in <code>/etc/portage/make.conf<code>. I guess this will make me fix some stuff in make-initrd.</p> +<p>Note: The permissions for the <code>/dev</code> files are wrong, which is probably why udhcpc is broken. And it requires you to put <code>FEATURES="-userfetch"</code> in <code>/etc/portage/make.conf</code>. I guess this will make me fix some stuff in make-initrd.</p> <p>btw I managed to not hit the floppy limit (except when I tried without XZ on the initramfs), but I didn’t find a way to see the occupied size on the floppy. I would probably have tried to cram more stuff in it like tinyx / tinyxserver and/or useful recovery tools. Such a floppy-based linux was <a href="http://distro.ibiblio.org/baslinux/">Basic Linux</a> from 2005 but it’s apparently dead and it used either DOS for booting or two floppies.</p> <p><a href="">Fediverse post for comments</a></p> </article>