[luau] Beta of small system image for POS terminal ready

[MonMotha]

Has anyone tried this?  I have no easy way to test it, so if someone 
could at least play with it to let me know if it is even capable of 
booting (with an added inittab), I'd be greatful.

--MonMotha

MonMotha wrote:
> http://videl.ics.hawaii.edu/~monmotha/smallsys/ and grab the file that's 
> in there.
> 
> I doesn't have a bootloader or an inittab yet (I can write the inittab 
> if you want), or any login utils.  It does have ssh and most of the 
> utils you'd expect on a normal system (other than the login stuff).  It 
> also has the zlib, readline, and ncurses shared libraries, which should 
> be enough to run something like dialog.
> 
> Everything on there was built with GCC 3.1 against GLIBC 2.2.5.  Minimum 
> kernel GLIBC supports is 2.2.20.
> 
> Uncompressed it's about 8.6MB, which will easily fit on a ramdisk in 
> most systems or can be put on a flash HDD.  Unfortunately, this is a bit 
> large to fit on even a double floppy boot system (compressed tarball is 
> 3.4MB).
> 
> If there are any problems with it or if anyone has any suggestions 
> (including apps to include), please let me know.
> 
> --MonMotha
> 
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