----- Original Message ----- From: "arne @ loopback . org" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > I would go a step further. make a minimal busybox only containing very few > applets(tar,msh as shell,mount,ls,cat,...) And link it statically with > uClibc. This will result in a quite small binary and you don't need to > include a big libc... I do not the interest of doing that in an LRP distro. You will need libc and ld-linux libraries anyway so why not putting them in initrd.gz ? If you compile statically even with uClibc you would loose disk space at the end... > > That is why you really don't need to back-up this as you would need it > > for a standard package with config files and the like. And I also do > > not see the need to make modification to root.linuxrc in the LRP > > environnement: there is not reason to change this script outside of LRP > > development. > > My only concern with this is the initial module loading introduced by > > Charles in dachstein. But I think I have found a solution to take care > > of this. See previous post. > > The Problem with your previous post is, that you can not load the > loadmod.lrp from the boot medium cause you need the modules from there to > access your boot medium. I do not understand that. If you need to mount a special driver to read your boot medium, obviously you cannot have either the original root.lrp nor my boomod.lrp package on this boot medium. It has to be on a floppy. > I would prefer to put it into the kernel, this would lead to a few customed > kernels, but only a few. As i want to concentrate my work on LRP for Systems > with CD,harddisk or flashdisk i have no Problem with a larger kernel. Obviously that is a safe solution. > My main Problem is to have it the size to fit on a floppy. But if we do not > use a embedded libc we will run into problems anyway, as fewer programs will > support glibc-2.0.7 and we have to switch to another libc. This will break > the floppy stuff (as using kernel 2.4 might). Well I guess we will have to move to glibc 2.1 or 2.2 at some point. But we all know that will lead to a somewhat bigger LRP distro... Jacques
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