On Jun 9, 20:08, Jeff Baitis wrote: >I made a mistake. I'm sorry, these projects use *busybox*. Don't know >if they use UClibC or not. Some wires in my brain got crossed. [...] You can combine busybox and UClibC to create a very small Unix file system holding most of the tools you would want. I made myself a single-floppy feature-full rescue root disk for my x86 system using busybox and UClibC. Looks like one good way to solve the space problem described below. -Tor >> On Mon, Jun 09, 2003 at 07:37:19PM +0200, Baruch Chaikin wrote: >> > Hi all, >> > >> > I'm using MIPS kernel 2.4.18 with NFS file system mounted on a RedHat >> > machine. This works fine, but is unsuitable for system deployment. Do >> > you have hints for me where to start, in order to put the file system on >> > flash? The platform I'm using is very limited - only one MTD block of >> > 2.5 MB is available for the file system, out of a 4 MB flash: >> > 0.5 MB is allocated for the firmware code >> > 1.0 MB for the compressed kernel image >> > 2.5 MB for the (compressed?) file system [...]
