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| 2003-12-04 |
Distribution Release: RUNT 3.1 |
| Version 3.1 of the ResNet USB Network Tester, or RUNT for short, has been released: "RUNT 3.1 has been released. The kernel has been updated to 2.4.23. A module is now available for the Cypress SL811HS USB host controller. I know nothing about this device or what uses it, so I did not include it on the bootdisk for this release. If it would be useful to anyone to be able to boot a USB storage device connected with such a controller, please email me and I will include this in future releases." See the full announcement on the distribution's web site. Download: runt-3.1.zip (48.5MB). RUNT is Slackware-based mini distribution designed to boot and run from a 128 MB USB pen drive.
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| About RUNT |
| 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. |
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