> > Now that I've a developement environment I'll be > replicating what I did > > with miniroot to get ap/3G/nas/router on a minimal > busybox based > > environment. > > So you have a Slackware system with busybox instead of the > GNU tools? How much > space saves this?
I'd stripp all that is not needed. Last time I built a similar emergency system I had, if I remember correctly: busybox, wireless tools, dropbera, vncviewer, dresktop, tinyX, fluxbox and limited hotplug/usb functionality in something like 15Mb. I think that's still avalible on freshmeat/sourceforge ... look for clash ... amongst the downloads there should be a small iso images. I had a look it's still avalible: http://sourceforge.net/projects/bclash/files/iso_images/2/ It has been unmaintained since then ans version 3 remains unfixed. BTW: the stuff I wrote at the time I had evidently less experience might be full of stuff I myself would find infuriating right now :-D This time I'll be aiming at making the AP/3G/nas/router fit in a smaller footprint. The idea would be to have: busybox, wireless tools, udev, usb utils, dropbear, nand utilities and possibly webserver and some web oriented scripting language. Web stuff aside it could be a nice small rescue system. My current armedslack miniroot AP/3G/nas/router fits in the 229Mb data mtd partition. I'm targeting the 32Mb root mtd partition for the reduced busybox setup. But in 32Mb I may not be able to get the web scripting language ... I'll see what I can manage. My last intel based surap (SUper Router Access Point) setup was less the 100Mb (if I remember correctly) and had apache and php. At worse it will be again more or less the same size. > > > As an alternatibe place to have this would it be a > crazy > > thing to have a microroot armedslack ? > > The bigges NAND partition on the Dockstar is about 220 MB > and could be used by > a rescue/fallback root partition if no USB drive is > connected. > UBIFS would be a good choice for it. I've never used ubifs ... my current setup uses jffs2 on the 229 Mb data mtd partition. jffs2 did a little compression magic and I was able to fit some 400Mb of data in the 229Mb partition. But once the system is created one can rearrange it for a different filesystem with just a small administrative effort. root@hp:~/dockstar# ls -l rootfs_ro.jffs2* -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 207506392 2011-03-29 15:53 rootfs_ro.jffs2 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 217841664 2011-03-30 09:44 rootfs_ro.jffs2.sum root@hp:~/dockstar# du -ms rootfs_ro 471 rootfs_ro root@hp:~/dockstar# Regards David _______________________________________________ ARMedslack mailing list [email protected] http://lists.armedslack.org/mailman/listinfo/armedslack
