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Proceedings of the 4Th Annual Linux Showcase & Conference, Atlanta USENIX Association Proceedings of the 4th Annual Linux Showcase & Conference, Atlanta Atlanta, Georgia, USA October 10 –14, 2000 THE ADVANCED COMPUTING SYSTEMS ASSOCIATION © 2000 by The USENIX Association All Rights Reserved For more information about the USENIX Association: Phone: 1 510 528 8649 FAX: 1 510 548 5738 Email: [email protected] WWW: http://www.usenix.org Rights to individual papers remain with the author or the author's employer. Permission is granted for noncommercial reproduction of the work for educational or research purposes. This copyright notice must be included in the reproduced paper. USENIX acknowledges all trademarks herein. Building a self-contained auto-configuring Linux system on an iso9660 filesystem Klaus Knopper [email protected] ¡ http://www.knopper.net/knoppix/ Abstract Bootable CD-Roms with a small Linux rescue system in business card size [1, 2] or regular size live demonstration CDs [3] are becoming popular re- cently. Also, some of the commercial Linux distributors as well as non-profit Open Source groups are developing self-running demos that are preconfigured for certain hardware, or contain a configuration frontend. Knoppix (Knopper’s *nix) is an attempt to not only create a fully featured rescue/demo system on a single CD, but also to unburden the user from the task of hardware identi- fication and configuration of drivers, devices and X11 for his or her specific hardware. The resulting product is supposed to be a platform CD with a stable GNU/Linux base system, that can be used to customize static installations for a specific purpose. Goal: Creating a fully functional and usable Reducing space limitations by compression Linux system running completely from a sin- The core system of about 200 MB (uncompressed) is gle CD currently based on the popular RedHat [4] distribution A frequently asked question asked by people who ”just and contains all basic commands and tools for a generic want to have a glance” on Linux to check out how use- Linux system. That leaves, on a standard 650 MB CD- ful it could be for them is, ”How can I test Linux with- Rom, over 400 MB for custom applications, which can out having to change anything on my computer?”. An- simply be installed with standard RPM packages on the other issue often requested by those already familiar with CD-Rom install/preparation system. Linux is, that there is seldom a fully installed and config- As of Version 1.2, Knoppix features a transparently de- ured Linux system in reach when you could need one for compressing loopback-blockdevice derived from Paul network debugging purposes or simple tasks like con- ’Rusty’ Russel’s cloop kernel module hack. For a stan- verting files from and into different formats, recover lost dard Linux installation, this reduces the space needed on data from a corrupt file system or run software that sim- the CD to about 50% down to 25% of the original filesys- ply only exists for Linux. A ”portable Linux allround tem size and leaves more space to custom applications or system”, but without having to carry around a note- multimedia datafiles. The compressed live-filesystem is book or mobile computer which can be lost or damaged, therefore present as a single file on the CD which is be- wouldn’t that be a great help? ing mounted via cloop from the bootfloppy or El Torito Knoppix is a one-CD live filesystem that can be cus- bootimage at system startup, from the ramdisk contain- tomized as rescue system, security scanner or plat- ing the root filesystem. For performance and stability form for presentations and demos, or as full-featured reasons, iso9660 has also been chosen as the underlying portable production platform with tools like KOffice or filesystem for the compressed image instead of a read- StarOfficeTM. only ext2 filesystem that is common on other live CD- The underlying GNU/Linux base system is modified to Roms. boot non-interactively into runlevel 5 with a working The compressed filesystem not only adds free space on X-Window and KDE [6] configuration, with all auto- the CD, but also reduces access time and head movement detectable devices configured, ready to (auto-)start ap- of the CD-Rom drive, but handles physical read errors plications. more ungraciously than an uncompressed filesystem and increases production time of a new release, because the whole installation filesystem needs to be compressed be- fore the new version can be burned and tested. Platform and Applications Stage 1 :¥<=0 9¥3©6¥¦5-©¨©. /¥¨©0©>?2 /¥2 2 3©0©. 3©@A6B2 ¦©- Knoppix provides a ready-to-run operating system :¥; /¥¨10©2 /¥2 2 3©0 2 4¨©¦5£¥3©. 6¥¤§3©. ¨ environment to: -©¨©. ¢ start security and auditing tools like nmap [8], nes- sus [7], dsniff and alike. Since there is no perma- nent storage present on a read-only CD-Rom, no sensitive information can be written or exposed ac- Stage 2 RAM CD!C ¨F3© ¥ 9¥ ¥. 9¥G¥¨ cidentially. The security checks can be performed ;©@E9¥6¥ ¥0 H 2 /¥6E>I@E9¥ ¥/¥ 6¥. 9¥@ 7 ¨©31 ¨50 2 /¥-©¦ on computers directly within a customers network . 7 2 K1¨ 9¥/¥ . 9¥0© 9E; L!; M 7 by simply booting from the CD on a machine that J is already connected to the internal network, ¢ produce game and application demos that run in a safe and tested environment, Stage 3 £¥¤§¦©¨© ¥ ¢ have a stable demo installation of GNU/Linux © ! !" # $% !# $'& ( available for presentation at trade shows or con- ) # )$* # +" # $,* # H ¥. 9¥G¥¨ 9¥. 3© ¥£¥2 ¦ £¥2 ¥¦©¨© 7 7 sulting talks with customers, J ¦© 3©. ¥8©¦1¨©¦©¦©2 9¥/ ¢ build a customized, read-only Linux installation for educational environment which is preconfig- Figure 1: The boot process ured for internet access and contains all commonly used applications for this purpose, ¢ present the features and use of GNU/Linux with- Knoppix CD by mounting all CD-Rom drives and check- out having to go through a long and maybe com- ing for a directory KNOPPIX that may contain a direc- plicated installation and configuration process, tory tree for the root filesystem or a file with the same name containing a compressed iso9660 image of the file ¢ feature a complete rescue and crash recovery sys- system which is then mounted via the cloop device. If tem for all kinds of emergency issues with all nec- no CD is found, an attempt is made to find the KNOPPIX essary filesystems in the kernel, and repair tools directory on an existing ext2 harddisk partition, contain- available. ing a complete installation tree. In either case, symbolic links are set to the uncompressed Technical Details: Boot process, automatic (or transparently decompressed) directory tree. hardware detection and configuration, au- After the CD has been mounted, dynamic library cache tostart of X11 and applications and paths are initialized and space is freed on the root ramdisk by removing files that are no longer needed for In stage 1 of the boot process, the Linux loader LILO the setup process. from the boot section of the el torito [5] 1.44 MB floppy image on the CD-Rom tries to read the kernel (cur- If a swap partition is detected during device/partition rently 2.2.16) and an 4 MB compressed initial ramdisk. scan, an attempt is made to utilize it via swapon to in- The size of this initial ramdisk determines the minimal crease workspace for applications. amount of memory needed to use the distribution. Also in this stage of the system startup, additional Without XFree [9] and KDE, about 8-16 MB of RAM ramdisks are mounted with a writable ext2 filesystem for seem to be sufficient for a working textmode-only envi- /home and /var. Their size is adapted from the avail- ronment. able amount of real memory. Symbolic links to system directories are created and control is given to init. In stage 2, the boot ramdisk tries to autoprobe for the most common SCSI adapters and identifies the CD-Rom In stage 3 of the boot process, init calls a finaliz- drive where the Knoppix CD is located. The mini- ing setup script named sysinit. In this script, the rootdisk features a statically linked shell with commands automatic (or, if ”expert” mode was selected, man- like mount built in, since the space on the bootfloppy ual) hardware setup is done. hwsetup - a selfmade is limited. For compatibility reasons with current floppy tool that uses the kudzu-library [4] - detects devices, drives, only a 1.44 MB floppy image is used on the CD loads all necessary driver modules for known hardware, instead of a 2.88 MB. The boot script tries to find the sets up symbolic links in /dev and writes configura- tion parameters and options to the corresponding files in /etc/sysconfig/ on the ramdisk. Parameters that cannot be auto-detected (frequency ranges of old Project status and distribution policy monitors, desired keyboard layout, language) are as- The Knoppix CD currently contains the base linux sys- sumed with reasonable defaults. A single X-Window tem software plus utilities for a rescue system, current session is started if the graphics hardware has been iden- security scanners, demos and some of the KDE and tified correctly. Default is truecolor in a resolution of Gnome games. It boots and auto-configures correctly 1024x786 pixels if possible, or 800x600/640x480 at 8- on most ix86 comptible desktop machines. The most bit if the graphics adapter cannot handle higher resolu- common PCI cards (network, sound, SCSI) are auto- tions or color depths. If detected, the accelerated XFree detected, drivers are loaded and mice, modems, CD-Rom (3.3) drivers are used with specific options depending on devices, CD-Writers etc.
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