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