Re: a question of Mulinux and other Distros

From: Bob Romprey (zoot@farts.com)
Date: Fri Jan 19 2001 - 20:02:35 CET

('binary' encoding is not supported, stored as-is) From what I've seen there is a bit of freespace on the "freesco" disk.
I believe there's a directory that allows one to add some webcontent for thttpd to serve, and because freesco is UMSDOS "syslinux based floppy disk" for those used to working with DOS a bit easier to work with.
Freesco states that additional content MUST be added via "floppy net",
but because freesco also contains netcat, I think that netcat could handle receiving remote files.
The only problem I had with freesco is that I could not find any way to "unbuild" the root image to add or remove anything.(I wanted to add perl and a easy text editor)

winsor

>Reply-To: mulinux@sunsite.dk
>Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2001 20:23:31 +0100
>From: Michele Andreoli <m.andreoli@tin.it>
>To: mulinux@sunsite.dk
>Subject: Re: a question of Mulinux and other Distros
>
>On Thu, Jan 18, 2001 at 11:17:21AM -0800, grl nicely wrote:
>> I have been looking for a floppy-based distribution of Linux that I can write my own
>> embedded apps and access the output via a web server. *whew* I have looked at all
>> the distros that are close to this application and Mulinux seems to be the
>> best match.
>
>To be honest, the best mini-distro that fit your pourpose is from
>Russia: the FREESCO floppy. It is a single 1440K system and very
>well-designed, with an remote HTML control.
>
>The remote control is very different from the muRCP you find in
>muLinux, because it is static, in this sense: if
>I change somenthing in the Setup, muRCP immediately will reflect
>the changes, without modification (it is only a CGI front-end to Setup)
>
>One of the advantages of FREESCO against mulinux is a floppy
>formatted at 1440K: this facilitate a lot the installation stage.
>
>
>>I would need to take out some native apps so that my embedded apps
>> would fit. The question is 2 parts:
>> 1) Is Mulinux the best for this application or is there another distribution
>> that might fit
>> better?
>
>Answered: with FREESCO you do not need to remove anything: you have
>to add, something.
>
>>
>> 2) If Mulinux is the best to start with, what things could I take out based
>> on my requirements below. Keep in mind that I will be compiling the apps on a
>> different system so there is no need for the compiler.
>>
>> I need a distribution that:
>> - fits on a 1772K floppy
>> - a small configurable web server that supports CGI or other scripting
>
>thttpd is wonderfull. The new in 11r6 supports authentication.
>It is also in FREESCO.
>
>> - automatically gets an IP via DHCP from an LRP router/firewall
>> - about 300k left on the 1722K floppy for embedded apps
>> - ftp/telnet servers so that new apps/webpages can be downloaded and run
>>
>
>All that is supported in FREESCO. But it is 1440K, so will have no
>other disk space for your appps.
>
>Michele
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