[RULE] Boot-floppy detect.

[Michael Fratoni]

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On Tuesday 21 January 2003 01:45 pm, Vegard Munthe wrote:
> This is not a RULE topic, but I'm asking in case someone here already
> has what I'm looking for. (Sorry if you take offence, but I'm
> desperate)

> What I need is a bootfloppy that detects the hardware (dmesg from a
> large kernel is not enough, need videocard etc). Software that does
> this successfully that I know of is detect (from libdetect) and kudzu.

I don't have a boot floppy with detect on it, but I do have a statically 
linked copy of detect available.

> I don't have any more time to devote to this problem for the next four
> months, but I have around $100 to spend on getting it done. :) We
> receive about 200 PCs per month, and those collectiing them are
> computer-illiterates, i.e. this floppy is imperative for successfull
> registration of the equipment. Is there anyone here who knows of a good
> solution, or who could make one? GNU/Linux floppyboots have always been
> black-magic, so $100 isn't much, but its all I can spare to show I'm
> serious.

Yours for the asking, just let me know and I'll make it available. The 
problem I see with a boot floppy is size. Detect doesn't build against 
uClibc, (well, that's a lie. It builds, but segfaults on execution). The 
version I have is linked against glibc, and is 511k in size. Plus, it 
needs it's database available at run time as well, which adds a little 
more.
$ du -h
288K    ./share/detect
292K    ./share
280K    ./lib
520K    ./sbin
32K     ./include
8.0K    ./man/man1
12K     ./man
1.2M    .

You'd need about 800k of space available (share and sbin, above). However, 
there are probably plenty of ways it could still be made useful. Let me 
know if you're interested. 
My non-negotiable fee is....
$ 0.00  ;)

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