On Jun 9, 20:08, Jeff Baitis wrote:
>I made a mistake. I'm sorry, these projects use *busybox*. Don't know
>if they use UClibC or not. Some wires in my brain got crossed.
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You can combine busybox and UClibC to create a very small Unix file system
holding
most of the tools you would want. I made myself a single-floppy feature-full
rescue
root disk for my x86 system using busybox and UClibC. Looks like one good way
to solve the space problem described below.
-Tor
>> On Mon, Jun 09, 2003 at 07:37:19PM +0200, Baruch Chaikin wrote:
>> > Hi all,
>> >
>> > I'm using MIPS kernel 2.4.18 with NFS file system mounted on a RedHat
>> > machine. This works fine, but is unsuitable for system deployment. Do
>> > you have hints for me where to start, in order to put the file system on
>> > flash? The platform I'm using is very limited - only one MTD block of
>> > 2.5 MB is available for the file system, out of a 4 MB flash:
>> > 0.5 MB is allocated for the firmware code
>> > 1.0 MB for the compressed kernel image
>> > 2.5 MB for the (compressed?) file system
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