On Fri, 2006-01-20 at 10:55 -0500, Dennis Taylor wrote:
> I have tried various ways of building a root fs with uClibc, but to no
> avail.  I have monitored this list long enough to know that someone
> out there has done it.  I need to do it for and X86 target that must
> fit in about 1.5 MB of flash that gets copied to RAM and started.
> 
> 
> The "out of the box" configuration I linked to from the uClibc site
> fails in various ways.  I like the Gentoo way of doing things, but the
> HOWTO link I saved a while back does not work.
> 
> Any pointers to documents that would help me succeed would be greatly
> appreciated. 


Sorry no docs but knowing your space constraints 


cat /etc/portage/root_install_mask 
*.a
/usr/include
/usr/lib/*.o
/bin/bb

Or just export what you want to mask via the INSTALL_MASK= env var.

emerge -b busybox uclibc
emerge -B baselayout-lite
ROOT=/dev/shm/ROOT \
 emerge -KO uclibc busybox baselayout-lite

# let busybox set up it's symlinks.
mount --bind /proc /dev/shm/ROOT/proc
chroot /dev/shm/ROOT/ /bin/sh --login
busybox --install -s
exit
umount /dev/shm/ROOT/proc

# these three pkgs should be your base for everything else you need
todo.

good luck and dont forget to setup your inittab/fstab/init scripts.

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