RUNT Linux



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Introduction

RUNT (ResNet USB Network Tester) is Slackware Linux designed to run from a 128MB USB pen drive. It consists of a boot floppy image and a zip file, similar to "zipslack". It is intended to be a fairly complete Linux installation for use as a testing tool capable of booting on any x86 computer with a USB port and a bootable floppy drive. The boot floppy is based on Slackware's bare kernel. It contains an initial ramdisk to load USB-storage related modules and it pauses for 5 seconds to allow the drive to initialize. The bootdisk also contains Memtest86, a very useful RAM testing tool, which can be started by typing memtest at the boot prompt. The zip file contains a UMSDOS filesystem designed to be extracted onto a 128MB pen drive with an MSDOS filesystem using 2K clusters.

RUNT(ResNet USB Network Tester)基于Slackware Linux而设计,它被设计为可在128MB的USB笔式驱动器上运行。它包括了一张启动软盘的镜像及一份与zipslack相似的压缩文件。它的目的是成为一份相当完整的Linux安装系统,以用作一份可以在任何拥有USB接口及启动软盘启动器的x86计算机上运行的测试工具。该启动软盘基于 Slackware的原始内核。它包括了一份初始的ramdisk以用于装载与USB存储相关的模块,并会暂停5秒钟以让软驱初始化。该启动盘也包含 Memtest86,这是一份非常有用的RAM测试工具,可以在引导提示符下键入memtest来启动。压缩文件也包含了一份UMSDOS文件系统,它被设计为能解开到128MB的笔式驱动器,从而提供一份使用2K簇的MSDOS文件系统。RUNT最初由北卡罗来纳州大学的ResNet部门开发。 ResNet通过接入NC State网络的个人电脑定实性地向校宿舍的学生提供支持。RUNT在启动时自动探测网卡并用DHCP进行配置。尽管RUNT面向NC State的网络使用而设计,其中却并不存在什么奇特的东西可以阻止将RUNT变为其他网络上的有用工具。

Links

• RUNT Linux Official website
• RUNT Linux @ Freshmeat
• RUNT Linux Wikipedia
• RUNT Linux Download