From:	 Tom Oehser <tom@toms.net>
To:	 lwn@lwn.net
Subject: tomsrtbt-2.0.0
Date:	 Sat, 6 Apr 2002 23:28:53 -0500 (EST)


I've released a major new version of tomsrtbt, 2.0.0

- The kernel has been upgraded from 2.0.39 to 2.2.20

- Most interesting new feature: bzip2 kernel and ramdisk loading

What will most be missed: emacs, for the moment, only vi will fit


What you get is... AHA152X AHA1542 AIC7XXX BUSLOGIC ST TULIP EATA EL2 EL3 EXT2
EXT3 EEXPRESS/_PRO/_PRO100 FAT FD FDOMAIN IDE-CD/DISK INITRD ISO9660 MINIX
JOLIET LOOP MATH_EMUL MSDOS NCR53C8XX NE2000 NFS NTFS PCNET32 QLOGIC SD SEAGATE
SERIAL SERIAL_CONSOLE SR VFAT VGA_CONSOLE VIDEO_SELECT VORTEX VT_CONSOLE WD80x3
3c589_cs agetty ash badblocks basename buildit.s busybox bzip2 cardmgr cat
chain.b chattr chgrp chmod chown chroot clear clone.s cmp common config cp cpio
cs cut date dd ddate df dhcpcd-- dirname dmesg domainname ds du e2fsck echo
egrep elvis ex false fdflush fdformat fdisk filesize find findsuper fmt
fsck.ext2 fstab grep group gunzip gzip halt head hexdump hexedit host.conf
hostname hosts i82365 ifconfig ile init inittab insmod install.s issue kernel
key.lst kill killall killall5 klogd ld ld-linux length less libc libcom_err
libe2p libext2fs libtermcap libuuid lilo lilo.conf ln loadkmap logger login ls
lsattr lsmod lua man md5sum miterm mkdir mkdosfs mke2fs mkfifo mkfs.minix mknod
mkswap more more.help mount mt mtab mv nc necho network networks nmclan_cs
nslookup passwd pax pcmcia pcmcia-scheme pcmcia_core pcnet_cs ping poweroff
printf profile protocols ps pwd rc.0 rc.6 rc.M rc.M_ rc.S rc.S_ rc.custom
rc.custom.gz rc.pcmcia reboot rescuept reset resolv.conf rm rmdir rmmod route
rsh rshd script scsi_info sed serial serial_cs services setserial settings.s sh
shared shutdown slattach sleep sln sort split strings swapoff swapon sync
syslogd tail tar tcic tee telnet telnetd temp termcap test tomshexd tomsrtbt.FAQ
touch true umount undeb-- unpack.s unrpm-- update utmp vi vi.help view wc wget
which xargs xirc2ps_cs yecho yes zcat ...ON ONE FLOPPY!


Updated new current fixed better versions of:

e2fsck mke2fs rescuept fdisk pcmcia busybox


New support added to the default image:

eexpress_pro100 ext3_fs pcnet32 serial_console


Removed from the default image:

idetape mouse slip tr emacs debugfs dumpe2fs fsck.msdos ifport pcmcia-scsi


It comes in three flavours, which make the same booted image:

tomsrtbt-2.0.0.tar.gz               # for installation from DOS
tomsrtbt-2.0.0.dos.zip              # for installation from Linux
tomsrtbt-2.0.0.ElTorito.288.img.bz2 # for bootable CD installation


The home page is:

	http://www.toms.net/rb/

It's a boot/root rescue/emergency floppy image with more stuff than can fit.
Bzip2, 1722Mb formatting, and tight compilation options helped jam a lot on.

It is useful for "learn unix on a floppy" as it runs from ramdisk, includes
the man-pages for everything, and behaves in a generally predictable way.

Note: This is a .0.0 version and has many known rough edges...

---------------------------- tomsrtbt-2.0.0.lsm --------------------------:
Begin3
Title:		tomsrtbt
Version:	2.0.0
Entered-date:	06APR02
Description:	"The most Linux on one floppy."  (distribution or panic disk).
		1.72MB boot/root rescue/tools diskette for your shirt pockets.
		Supports ide, scsi, tape, network adaptors, PCMCIA, much more.
		About 100 utility programs and tools for fixing and restoring.
		See tomsrtbt.FAQ for a list of stuff that is included.  Not a
		script, just the diskette image packed up chock full of stuff.
		Easy to customize startup and scripts for complete rebuilding.
		Also good as learn-unix-on-a-floppy as it has mostly what you
		expect- vi,      , lua, sed, sh, manpages- loaded on ramdisks.
		There is one installer that runs under Linux, another for DOS.
Keywords:	rescue recovery emergency floppy panic bootdisk tomsrtbt help
Author: 	tom@toms.net (Tom Oehser)
Maintained-by:	tom@toms.net (Tom Oehser)
Primary-site:	www.toms.net /rb
		1 kB home.html
Alternate-site:	sunsite.unc.edu /pub/Linux/system/recovery
		1722 kB tomsrtbt-2.0.0.tar.gz
		1722 kB tomsrtbt-2.0.0.dos.zip
		1722 kB tomsrtbt-2.0.0.ElTorito.img.bz2
Copying-policy:	GPL
End

-Tom Oehser, tom@toms.net