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Gnudenberg

Gnudenberg is a Linux distribution based on Slackware Linux that is linked with uclibc instead of glibc to run in old computers (386, 486, Pentium I and things like that).

Installation

(provisory version)

1 - Download the packages

Download the packages of Gnuden from subversion: 

  svn checkout https://svn.sarava.org/gnuden/

also available via https://svn.sarava.org/viewvc/gnuden/

2 - Installation

From a slackware (if you are not in a slack, install pkgtools) or from a slackware install CD (can be the 10.2 CD), mount the partition that will be used for Gnuden, /mnt/gnuden for example, and do that (consider that the packages were downloaded inside /mnt/packages/gnuden-current/gnuden/): 

  installpkg -root /mnt/gnuden /mnt/packages/gnuden-current/gnuden/*/*.tgz

After that, give a chroot to the gnuden root directory: 

  chroot /mnt/gnuden

Edit the /etc/fstab to point the root directory ( / ) to the correct gnuden partition. fstab example of a gnuden installed in /dev/hdb3: 

  /dev/hdb3        /                ext3        defaults         0   0
  shmfs            /dev/shm         tmpfs       defaults         0   0
  devpts           /dev/pts         devpts      gid=5,mode=620   0   0
  proc             /proc            proc        defaults         0   0

If you want to run gnuden in a lowmem ( <= 8Mb ) environment, It's recommended to use /bin/ash instead of /bin/bash as your user shell.

Gnuden comes with the lilo boot loader, and his configuration file is at /etc/lilo.conf . Edit it and than run the command: 

  lilo

Reboot the system and you'll be running Gnudenberg!

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