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FirstRib a full installed distro

Turning your fully installed Linux distro into a frugal install via FirstRib A full installed distro tends to lack the flexibility of a …

FirstRibIT

The next FirstRib matter I intend to blog a bit about is the process of building a FirstRib-based distro. However, I find this topic a …

FirstRib maintenance utilities

Here is a partial list of utilities you can use to maintain/modify your FirstRib-powered distro: 1. `modify_initrd_gz.sh \ …

FirstRib Documentation and Downloads

Whilst this blog-centred website has been usefully used by myself for some years, I haven't really spent a lot of time on producing new …

Firstrib booting via UUID and LABEL

QUESTION: Where on the filesystem are the various FirstRib boot components? ANSWER: Wherever you wish them to be. After another long …

FirstRib frugal-pseudo-full install howto

Flexible Pseudo Full Install of FirstRib-based distros So today I paid for some cloud resources. I plan to set up a cloud-based virtual …

FirstRib initrd easy changes rollback

Rolling back to a previous boot session state The following can be used with either a non-pseudo-full-install (i.e. a FirstRib typical …

FirstRib initrd RAM modes

FirstRib wiak initrd provides three alternative w_changes RAM modes, as follows: w_changes=RAM0 This mode doesn't use any existing …

FirstRib savefiles

Whilst I'm on the topic of KLV-Airedale, I thought it might be useful to document some technical features of all FirstRib built …

Let us not forget KLV-Airedale

Based on FirstRib - really its flagship build at this time. KLV-Airedale is built using the FirstRib root filesystem build script and …