[Trinux-news] (fwd) single floppy perl mini-howto

[ciderly <ci...@co...>]

Just sent this to per...@pe..., thought you might also like a
copy, thanks for all the crazy work guys, you kick ass.
-steven

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From: ciderly <ci...@co...>
Subject: single floppy perl mini-howto
To: per...@pe...
Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2001 04:53:25 -0700
User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.11i

Ok, I had this crazy item on my wishlist for awhile, and finally figured
out a solution worthy of crossing it off my list.

If you have a floppy disk, a floppy drive, a network card and network
connectivity (perhaps even dhcp) and are interested in booting a ramdisk
environment capable of a fully functional perl within 5 commands or
less, take a look at the mini-howto below, also available @
http://compulsion.org/prizes/single_floppy_perl

When writing this hackish howto, I had fanatics and perl instructors
teaching students in mind, also people without harddrives or those who
feel safer sleeping with a single-floppy perl-capable linux distribition
under their pillow.

Sincerely,
Steven Fountain (ciderly, ci...@co...)


title: getting perl running using a single floppy image in a ramdisk
environment mini-howto
author: ci...@co...


If you plan to hack this together on a laptop with a network card:
1) wget http://trinux.org/boot/trinux-0.80rc2-pcmcia.img # get the image
2) dd if=3Dtrinux-0.80rc2-pcmcia.img of=3D/dev/fd0 # put it on a floppy

Otherwise you'll probably be hacking something without the need for
pcmcia support, so you'll want to get the net image.
1) wget http://trinux.org/boot/trinux-0.80rc2-ide.img # get the image
2) dd if=3Dtrinux-0.80rc2-ide.img of=3D/dev/fd0 # put it on a floppy


Next, boot up the floppy.


When booted (with network support configured, i think it even does
dhcp), you'll install a bunch of functional client utilities automaticly
(ssh, lynx, ncftp) and you will then get dumped to a bash# prompt.

=46rom here, you'll want to type:
1) getpkg libdb
2) getpkg perlbin
3) getpkg perlcore
4) getpkg perlsite
5) getpkg perlmods


Now finally, dump yourself in code heaven:
1) perl -d -e 1

And enjoy.


(Trinux can do a lot more then this, for a full list of getpkg'able
files take a look at http://trinux.sourceforge.net/pkg/) (I'm thinking
ngrep, apache, bind, or a horde of other neat things provided from a
single floppy.)


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