looking for a nice root filesystem image

looking for a nice root filesystem image

[Sebastien Ruel]

Finally a got a working system (RPX-CLLF), booting from Flash, with
minimal root filesystem (Thanks to M. Denk).

Now i'm looking for a "a bit bigger" root filesystem with typical
utilities like: umount, ifconfig, etc. that could fit in around 8 MBytes
of Flash. Is there some image available somewhere on the Net?

I have tried to strip down the "target" directory from the Hardhat Linux
CDK 1.2, but it became a nightmare with libraries. PAM security is using
to much disk space, and it's not easy to remove it. My embedded system
does not need all that security.

Thanks

Sebastien Ruel, eng.
Oerlikon Contraves


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Re: looking for a nice root filesystem image

[Sebastien Ruel]

  Williams, Kevin M. wrote:

>Try busybox.  It sounds EXACTLY like what you are looking for
>
>http://busybox.lineo.com
>
Good idea, thank's!


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Re: looking for a nice root filesystem image

[Wolfgang Denk]

In message <3BD9CCC3.1030704@oerlikon.ca> you wrote:
>
> Now i'm looking for a "a bit bigger" root filesystem with typical
> utilities like: umount, ifconfig, etc. that could fit in around 8 MBytes
> of Flash. Is there some image available somewhere on the Net?

Have a look at "SELF" (our Simple Embedded  Linux  Framework");  it's
based  on Busybox, provides a lot of tools including remote access to
your target using FTP and telnet and fits in <840 kB of flash (kernel
not included).

You can get it even smaller when you "optimize" your  libs  (see  the
running thread).

Hope it helps.

Umm, yes, before I forget it: you find SELF in
ftp://ftp.denx.de/pub/LinuxPPC/usr/src/SELF/
There is even a short README ;-)

Hope it helps,

Wolfgang Denk

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passion  which would lead you to believe that it might be a good idea
to wipe out the whole human race and start again with amoebas.
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