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madworx / docker-minix

QEMU-based Docker image for Minix 3, based on the official CD-ROM ISO image installation from the Minix website
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Stripped PXE-booted distribution #3

Open madworx opened 6 years ago

madworx commented 6 years ago

The current setup with a static qcow2 image is a bit clunky, does not utilize the underlying operating systems ability to expand etc.

To reach this goal, we'll need to ascertain the possibility to create a small net-boot or harddrive-based Minix distribution, which can boot enough to pivot the root file system to NFS.

The current Minix "ramdisk"-based solution packs the entire distribution (300Mbyte) into the ramdrive, occupying unnecessary RAM as well as docker image size.

madworx commented 6 years ago

Mounting another file system on top of initramfs works. (Although, /dev becoming empty was, of course, an issue)

minix# mount /dev/c0d0p0s0 /
/dev/c0d0p0s0 is mounted on /
minix# df -h
Filesystem          Size       Used      Avail %Cap Mounted on
bootramdisk         336M       320M        16M  95% /
none                  0B         0B         0B 100% /proc
none                  0B         0B         0B 100% /sys
none                  0B         0B         0B 100% /dev/pts
/dev/c0d0p0s0       128M        35M        93M  27% /