From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Cristi Magherusan Date: Fri, 14 Aug 2009 11:33:29 +0300 Subject: [Buildroot] Using Buildroot to make small footprint linux In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <1250238809.2595.7.camel@ufo> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net On Sun, 2009-08-02 at 17:51 +0100, Raed Abu-Sanad wrote: > Hi,, > > I just downloaded latest version buildroot. I am working on ubuntu > 8.04. > how can i started the automated process of buildroot to create > filesytem and kernel images and install them on a USB flas or CF ? > Any simple tutorial? > > Thanks Hello, It should feel very familiar to the people who at least once have compiled a Linux kernel.. Run "make menuconfig" in the root dir, select whatever you need to, then run "make", and it will generate whichever you ask it to from the menu interface. It can generate everything as a Ext3 FS image(other rootfs formats may be useful too), which you can just dd to your disk and grow it using gparted until it fills it.. Here's the whole documentation, if you won't be satisfied with the two commands I wrote before: http://buildroot.uclibc.org/buildroot.html Cristi -- Ing. Cristi M?gheru?an, System/Network Engineer Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, Romania http://cc.utcluj.ro +40264 401247 -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 197 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part URL: