# hal91 user-guide

## By Øyvind Kolås

03.06.98

hal91 is a minimalistic linux installation fitting on one single 1.44Mb disk, intended for use as an rescue disk and a portable linux system. The system is easily extended with additional datadisks or files/folders on a harddrive.

## 1. Getting started.

- 1.1 Getting hal91
- 1.2 Transferring hal91-0.x.x to a disk
- 1.3 Booting the system
- 1.4 Loading the datadisk

## 2. System overview.

- 2.1 The standard hal91 booting sequence
- 2.2 The core file system
- 2.3 The /linuxrc file

## 3. The add.tgz filesystem

- 3.1 The included hal91.ini
- 3.2 Contents of the included etc.tgz

## 4. Installing hal91 on a dos/windows harddrive.

- 4.1 Installing the base system

## 5. Customizing the system.

- 5.1 Compiling your own kernel
- 5.2 Creating an own add.tgz system

## 6. Plans, problems,bugs and things to do

- 6.1 Make networking work
- 6.2 On demand download/execution
- 6.3 bdflush/update

## 7. Frequently asked questions

- 7.1 Why isn't the image file gzip'd?
- 7.2 Why do you use old binaries?
- 7.3 Will you have X available?
- 7.4 Why isn't there support for <...>?
- 7.5 What about having <...> on the disk?
- 7.6 When booting it displays 'Boot Failed: change disks and press any key.'
- 7.7 hal91 is bigger than one disk!
- 7.8 Netscape displays the file instead of downloading it!
- 7.9 The keyboard settings are incorrect!
- 7.10 Why does initrd.gz still remain the same size after removing files?