From: Tsuyoshi GEMMA <tgem@ecodacs.or.jp>

Dear Thomas

ffw-ppp-1.1.1-gem1 is a "working sample" of my modified version of linuxrc
and experimental "oversized" (1680KB) disk image.

Root device is no longer hard-coded. Root device specifid in syslinux.cfg is
passed to linuxrc and used to select correct device file for mounting.

In addition, to show advantage of "oversized" disk, this disk image also 
contains ppp-plus.bz2 and pppoe.bz2 package. Contents of these packages are
identical to those built by Brad. I only re-built these packages on my 
Slackware-7.1 box because floppyfw-1.1.1 and Slackware-7.1 are glibc-2.1
based system. 
(Precisely, my ppp-plus.bz2 package does not have serial.o because serial
driver is in the kernel) 

If you want to make larger "oversized" version (e.g. 1722KB, 1743KB, etc...),
you can do like this:

1) prepare "oversize-formatted" disk.
2) copy all flopyfw-related files onto it.
3) execute syslinux command for the disk created
   (e.g. syslinux -s /dev/fd0u1743)
4) modify syslinux.cfg to meet your need
   (e.g. root=/dev/fd0u1743)

There is no need to uncompressing and modify initrd.gz.


Changelog

original 1.1.1 to 1.1.1-gem1

Date: 2001-01-26

 - Modified linuxrc
 - Increased inodes (initrd)
 - Changed initializing scripts and firewall.ini (equivalent to 1.0.9-version)
 - Changed syslog.cfg (equivalent to 1.0.9-version)
 - Upgraded kernel to 2.2.18
 - Added VFAT support
 - Kernel compressed with UPX
 - Busybox-0.48
 - Syslinux v.1.48
 - Removed /dev/hd* and /dev/sd*
 - Added /dev/fd0u1680, /dev/fd0u1722, /dev/fd0u1743, /dev/fd0u1840
 - Kernel config. is identical to 1.0.9-version. Thus, NIC and serial driver is
   in the kernel
 - dhcpcd-1.3.19pl6

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