Re: [gentoo-user] Making a init thingy. Step two I guess.

[Dale]

Alan McKinnon wrote:
> On Sat, 17 Sep 2011 13:27:45 -0700
> Mark Knecht<markknecht@×××××.com>  wrote:
>
>>> Then I get confused.  I get to Applications and I'm sort of lost
>>> here.  In there it talks about copying nano and its friends over to
>>> the init directory.  Then below that it says to use busybox.  Well,
>>> which is it?  Do I do both of those or just one?
>>>
>> It's been a while for me but I believe it's both. I think busybox is
>> the thing that gives you command line tools like cd, ls, pwd, etc.
>> However you also can include applications in your initramfs that give
>> you more access to the hardware or the net.
> True.
>
> Busybox is a tiny userland implementing most of the common options for
> most of the common Unix commands. When you log into your ADSL
> router/modem and get a shell, it's probably busybox running there,
> not GNU util-linux stuff.
>
> Binary distros often put busybox in their initrds as it doubles up as a
> rescue environment and busybox is many times smaller than the full GNU
> stuff. It's up to you if you want to do that or not; if all you use an
> initrd for is a convenient place to store drivers to be able to
> mount /usr, then you will have no need for busybox in it.
>

Unless something goes wrong.  You know how I am.  Murphy's law and all.  
lol

Dale

:-)  :-)