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>8. Reducing root filesystem size</A
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> One of the main problems with building bootdisks is getting everything to fit
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into one (or even two) diskettes. Even when files are compressed this can be
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very difficult, because Linux system components keep growing. Here are some
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common techniques used to make everything fit.</P
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>8.1. Increase the diskette density</A
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>By default, floppy diskettes are formatted at 1440K, but higher density
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formats are possible. Whether you can boot from higher density
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disks depends mostly on your BIOS.
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<TT
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>fdformat</TT
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> will format disks for
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the following sizes: 1600K, 1680K, 1722K, 1743K, 1760K, 1840K, and 1920K.
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See the <B
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>fdformat</B
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>.</P
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> But what diskette densities/geometries will your machine support? Here
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are some (lightly edited) answers from Alain Knaff, the author of fdutils.</P
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>This is more an issue of the BIOS rather than the physical format of the disk.
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If the BIOS decides that any sector number greater than 18 is bad, then
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there is not much we can do. Indeed, short of disassembling the BIOS, trial
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and error seems to be the only way to find out. However, if the BIOS supports
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ED disks (extra density: 36 sectors/track and 2.88MB), there's a chance that
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1722K disks are supported as well.</P
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><P
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>Superformatted disks with more than 21 sectors/track are likely not bootable:
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indeed, those use sectors of non-standard sizes (1024 bytes in a sector
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instead of 512, for example), and are likely not bootable. It should however
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be possible to write a special bootsector program to work around this. If I
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remember correctly, the DOS 2m utility has such a beast, as does OS/2's XDF
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utilities.</P
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><P
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>Some BIOSes artificially claim that any sector number greater than 18
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must be in error. As 1722K disks use sector numbers up to 21, these
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would not be bootable. The best way to test would be to format a test
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DOS or syslinus disk as 1722K and make it bootable. If you use LILO,
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don't use the option linear (or else LILO would assume that the disk
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is the default 18 sectors/track, and the disk will fail to boot even
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if supported by the BIOS).</P
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>8.2. Replace common utilities with BusyBox</A
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><P
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> Much root filesystem space is consumed by common GNU system utilities
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such as <TT
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>cat, chmod, cp, dd, df</TT
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>, etc. The
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<EM
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>BusyBox</EM
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> project was designed to provide minimal
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replacements for these common system utilities. BusyBox supplies one single
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monolithic executable file, <TT
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CLASS="LITERAL"
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>/bin/busybox</TT
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>, about 150K, which
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implements the functions of these utilities. You then create symlinks from
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different utilities to this executable; busybox sees how it was called and
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invokes the correct code. BusyBox even includes a basic shell.
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BusyBox is available in binary packages for many distributions, and source
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code is available from <A
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>the BusyBox
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site</A
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>.
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</P
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>8.3. Use an alternate shell</A
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> Some of the popular shells for Linux, such as <B
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and <B
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>tcsh</B
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>, are large and require many libraries. If you
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don't use the BusyBox shell, you should still consider replacing your shell
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anyway. Some light-weight alternatives are <B
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>ash</B
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>,
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<B
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CLASS="COMMAND"
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>lsh</B
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>, <B
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>kiss</B
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> and <B
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>smash</B
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>,
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which are much smaller and require few (or no) libraries. Most of these
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replacement shells are available from <A
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TARGET="_top"
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><TT
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>http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/system/shells/</TT
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></A
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>. Make sure any shell you use is capable of running
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commands in all the <TT
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> files you include on your
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bootdisk.
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>8.4. Strip libraries and binaries</A
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> Many libraries and binaries are distributed with debugging information.
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Running <B
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stripped</TT
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>'' if so.
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> objcopy --strip-all FROM TO</PRE
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>When copying libraries, be sure to use <TT
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<TT
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>8.5. Move files to a utility disk</A
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> If some of your binaries are not needed immediately to boot or login,
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you can move them to a utility disk. See <A
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details. You may also consider moving modules to a utility disk as well.
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