Unfortunately, this project needs to be "quick and dirty" just to solve a
customer query.  Learning about all of the boot process is something I
definately I want to do, however.

Alan

At 03:06 PM 10/5/01 -0700, you wrote:
>I wonder if you could adapt the Red Hat system administrator's survival
>CD for your purposes?  See:
>
>    ftp://ftp ftp.redhat.de/pub/rh-addons/rescue-cd
>
>You might also look at some of the packages used to create custom
>rescue disks.  (I used one a while back, but I forgot what it was
>called.)
>
>I haven't tried out Slackware in a very long time, but when I used
>to use it, I seem to remember that you could customize the install
>to fit in a fairly small space.  Perhaps that's still true.
>
>I think you should also be able to take pieces from an already working
>system and assemble these into a new root file system.  That way you
>could use your favorite distro.  (It'd be a valuable learning experience
>too because you'd find out about the various dependencies between the
>files you assemble into your new root file system.)
>
>Kevin