Chapter 4. Some Basic Utilities

Table of Contents
4.1. Analysis
4.2. Design
4.2.1. Determining Required Commands
4.2.2. Locating Source Code
4.2.3. Leveraging FHS
4.2.4. Downloading Source Code
4.3. Construction
4.3.1. Create a staging area
4.3.2. Copy contents of phase 2 rootdisk
4.3.3. Install binaries from GNU coreutils
4.3.4. Copy additional libraries
4.3.5. Strip binaries and libraries
4.3.6. Create a compressed root disk image
4.3.7. Write the root disk image to floppy
4.4. Implementation
4.4.1. System startup
4.4.2. Testing new commands
4.4.3. System shutdown