[gBootRoot-user] First steps

[<mal...@t-...>]

Hello,

  I am trying gBootRoot.  My goal is this: to create a minimal networked
system using the current kernel of the 2.4x variety, to run two or more of
these with User-Mode Linux (as multicast parhaps), and then explore and
test various network options, such as firewalling with iptables for
instance.

  To do this I do not really want to launch several large Mandrake 8.2
root_fs that can be found at the UML's site. I prefer using minimal Linux
systems so that I can also learn how such a systems is made.  So far, I
haven't seen any minimal root_fs with kernel 2.4.4 or above.

  So, at first I follow the step-by-step tutorial found in the gBootRoot
FAQ.  I got Tom's root-fs, I do what's described in the steps and then
when I click, at step 5, on "submit" gBootRoot reports "no kernel found". 
Previously when I clicked on 2-disk compression the Verbosity Box
reported: "Neither gz or bz2 compression found". Of course gz and bz2 are
already installed.

  Can you help with this ? I run Mandrake 8.2.


Alain