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On Wed, May 25, 2005 at 03:20:01PM -0400 or thereabouts, Matthew Cline wrote: |
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> Just my 0.02 |
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> I think using catalyst to build embedded systems is a great idea. I |
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> have yet to see any solid program for creating disk images for |
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> embedded devices or simply any computer with limited storage |
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> constraints. This idea also seems to leverage advantages already |
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> present in catalyst. |
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This is exactly why I wrote what I did. I needed this functionality, |
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catalyst had an easy way of implementing it. |
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And I have been doing it with catalyst for 2 years almost. I had a |
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process that not only built embedded disk images, but produced block |
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size equivalent images for a flash-based computer. |
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All that was required for an update was a straight dd to the flash |
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and grub. |
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It does all kinds of cool stuff like construct different |
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filesystem images and do removal of files in /usr/include, man |
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pages.. etc etc. Some of it was hacks, but I provided the hooks to |
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give a system builder a lot of flexibility. |
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Anyway, any kind of feedback would be *really* cool and would |
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encourage me to work on it some more ;-) |
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