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On Wed, 2003-10-29 at 22:02, Christian Gut wrote: |
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> On Mi, 2003-10-29 at 21:24, Vano D wrote: |
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> > But anyhow.. I am positive it can be made even smaller, by using less |
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> > binaries, cutting down on the baselayout or using a custom one |
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> > (slackware rc scripts come to mind) the reason for this is not that the |
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> > scripts take a lot of space, but they use some binaries and in my case |
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> > instead of I copy the binaries themselves I emerge the whole package the |
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> > binaries belong to. And course last but not least, using uglibc should |
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> > shrink the thing even more (but then incompatibility issues might arise |
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> > with some packages...) |
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> How did you build this thing, just a simple chroot env and unpacking the |
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> precompiled packages? Then kernel and adding it to the bootloader or |
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> how? |
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Just as you said it. But ofcourse the chroot is a clean empty dir. Also |
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you have to manually symlink the busybox and tinylogin (i.e. if you do |
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"ln -s /bin/busybox /bin/ls" when you run ls it runs "busybox ls". Busybox |
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is intelligent enough to know that it should run its ls implementation. So |
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you have to manually create all those symlinks) and also change inittab |
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to run getty instead of agetty (getty is a symlink to tinylogin). |
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Thats about it IIRC. Can't be easier. |
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Cheers, |
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Vano |
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