Is it possible to install qnx with less than 60MB. (Flash card on an
little-board pentium 266) The install program seems to require 60MB for the
base package but obviously if they can get it to fit on a 1.44 floppy it can
be done in less than 60. I don’t need the multi-media stuff… or even the
GUI… just the OS a compiler and editor…
Any info would sure help out…
Thanks!
“Kyle Heath” <kyle.h.heath@rose-hulman.edu> wrote in message
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Is it possible to install qnx with less than 60MB. (Flash card on an
little-board pentium 266) The install program seems to require 60MB for
the
base package but obviously if they can get it to fit on a 1.44 floppy it
can
be done in less than 60. I don’t need the multi-media stuff… or even
the
GUI… just the OS a compiler and editor…Any info would sure help out…
Thanks!
The answer is “more than likely” 
You may not be able to just fire up and do a complete install, because a
lot of stuff gets shoved on there that you’re not going to need. If
you’ve got a full-blown QNX4 system that can write to the flash card with a
QNX4 driver, or a machine with a floppy disk drive that can write to the
flash card, then you’re set.
There are a bunch of ways to do it, but in general what you want to do is
dinit the flash (which makes a filesystem on it and installs the loader),
mount it under some directory like /fc, then proceed to set it up with only
the files that you’re going to need. For example, copy a boot image (made
elsewhere for your little-board config) to /fc/.boot, make /fc/bin, /fc/etc
and so on, and populate with just the stuff you need. Don’t forget nameloc
or you’ll have licensing issues. umount the flash card, and it should be
bootable, provided your BIOS will boot from it and you have the right disk
driver in your boot image.
If you have to do the floppy thing, you can make a boot floppy with the
appropriate utilities on it, mount the flash card, and do the same thing.
I’ve used this to install RtP before they had a boot disk/CD. I made a QNX4
boot disk with the appropriate disk driver, dinit, mount, tcp/ip networking
and so on. I booted the floppy, set up the hard drive, then ftp’d the stuff
over that I needed (basically all of the runtime files).
Maybe there’s an easier way, but it shouldn’t be a huge hassle (unless you
have no way to pre-format the flash card). I wish you luck…
-Warren