From: jake sullivan <jacob_sullivan@yahoo.com>
To: buildroot@busybox.net
Subject: [Buildroot] newbie questions (filesystems and bootimage)
Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2007 09:34:01 -0800 (PST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <899048.6025.qm@web56403.mail.re3.yahoo.com> (raw)
I have a motion control application that I would like to port from a desktop environment to an "embedded" environment. I have played with the buildroot software and read through the documentation/mailing lists but still have a couple of questions...
The target device is an i486 device with 128megs of RAM and a 128meg flash drive. Once loaded into memory, the application rarely (once or twice a month) will write a configuration change to the drive.
1) What is the current wisdom on filesystems/types? It there a reason to not stick with ext2 which seems to be pretty common?
2) How exactly do I get the target image to the device? I have an adapter to mount the flash drive into my desktop. I have tried dd'ing it to the drive and tried something in the mailing archives that used rsync, but when I mounted the drive into the device, it couldn't find the OS. I know all the hardware is working because I have an old slackware image I can dd to the drive and it boots fine.
Jake
Is there a place to post HowTo's/FAQs for this project? Once I get this working, I might as well post it for the next newbie...
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