On Tuesday 05 December 2006 07:10, Daniel de Kok wrote:
> On Tue, December 5, 2006 2:57 pm, Oliver Schulze L. wrote:
> > I'm looking for info about installing centos 4.4 on an embedded platform,
> > like wrap's pcengines or similar.
>
> You will definitely need a modified kernel, because the WRAP seems to have
> a 486 CPU. Besides that it depends a lot on the size of the CompactFlash
> cards that you are planning to use. It is possible to make a fairly
> minimal CentOS installation by picking packages by hand, though IIRC a
> minimal system is around 100MB compressed.
The higher end (48xx) Soekris box is a 586, and CentOS installs fine (PXE
booting is the easy route). I can't comment on the WRAP boxes, I haven't
actually worked with one.
I think to actually get CentOS down that small there's a few RPMs you have to
force remove. It makes upgrading anything a pain because you have to
manually add and force packages for install as well.
> With lower-end hardware it is usually easier to go with a custom Busybox
> setup. Busybox is small, and quite easy to set up.
I would second this. CentOS' dependencies are pretty complex and intermingled
when you get to a small set of installed RPMs.
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- Kevan Benson
- A-1 Networks
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