[gentoo-dev] Re: 'submerge' was Re: Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo Embedded

[Vano D]

On Wed, 2003-10-29 at 16:06, Vano D wrote:

> baselayout-1.8.6.10-r1.tbz2
> bash-2.05b-r7.tbz2
> busybox-0.60.3-r1.tbz2
> devfsd-1.3.25-r3.tbz2
> e2fsprogs-1.33.tbz2
> gawk-3.1.3.tbz2
> glibc-2.3.2-r1.tbz2
> tinylogin-1.2.tbz2
>
> The whole thing occupying 16 megs!

...

> The only thing which doesnt seem to
> work are Gentoo's runlevels, but they do get exectued, everything runs,
> but errors pop out (but they work). What seems missing are: egrep,
> hostname and install. Probably having these will get the whole thing
> working right out of the (gentoo) box.

I added:

net-tools-1.60-r7.tbz2
grep-2.5.1-r1.tbz2
coreutils-5.0-r3.tbz2

And now everything seems to be near 100% functional. Only two small
errors at boot related to runlevels, but runlevels are working 100%
or so it seems.

> On another note, I went a bit furter and installed:
>
> gpm-1.20.1.tbz2
> ncurses-5.3-r2.tbz2
> links-2.1_pre9.tbz2
>
> Getting a working browser adding an additional 3 megs (didnt know
> ncurses was so big) making the whole thing 19 megs.
>

The whole thing (with gpm, ncurses, links) is now 22 megs(if you dont
include gpm, nvurses and links its 3 megs less.. 19 megs for a base
system). Big for embedded but take in account that I only have made a
small change in the gentoo scripts. Apart from that change (change
agetty->getty in inittab) the rest is as it comes with baselayout.

Advantage is that you can make an embedded system with practically no
knowledge of embedded systems and in a few minutes!

I would love to see an effort into rolling out an embedded gentoo
baselayout.

Cheers,

Vano.




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