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This is what I use: |
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http://www.bulah.com/embeddedgentoo.html |
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My installation is 6 mb, since I'm installing into 32 mb, I haven't |
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tried too hard to pair it down. I'm installing on Soekris net4526 |
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boards. Keep in mind there are somethings you can do after you build |
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you filesystem with Gentoo to make the install even smaller: |
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Remove /usr/include |
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Remove all .keep files |
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Audit the rest of the file system for unnecessary files, expecially / |
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etc and /var |
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I have a series of scripts I've written to automate the process |
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described in the above howto, and I would like to publish them |
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shortly, but please don't hold your breath. :) |
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-Josh |
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On Jan 20, 2006, at 10:55 AM, Dennis Taylor wrote: |
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> I have tried various ways of building a root fs with uClibc, but to |
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> no avail. I have monitored this list long enough to know that |
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> someone out there has done it. I need to do it for and X86 target |
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> that must fit in about 1.5 MB of flash that gets copied to RAM and |
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> started. |
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> The "out of the box" configuration I linked to from the uClibc site |
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> fails in various ways. I like the Gentoo way of doing things, but |
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> the HOWTO link I saved a while back does not work. |
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> Any pointers to documents that would help me succeed would be |
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> greatly appreciated. |
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> Dennis Taylor |
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Joshua ChaitinPollak |
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Software Engineer |
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Kiva Systems |