On Sun, 14 Oct 2001, Ilic Aleksandar wrote:
> This is from Config.h from my busybox:))

Hmmm, looks like some Erik-Magic :-) You should discuss this directly with
him.

> Less than 2MB ?? Mine is about 3.5MB with debian's glibc and dinamic
> busybox and tinylogin and kernel-2.2.19.

Did you compile some stuff like linuxthreads etc in?

> Interbase is minimum about 8.5MB. Problem with InterBase is that it
> use ncurses:( so it will make my distro bigger if I failed in building
> InterBase without ncurses cause I need only server and libraries for
> connecting to it.

Have you tried to link statically against ncurses? Might make things
smaller.

> It will control machine for Blood seperation.

Interesting!

> But my biggest problem is that those machines r going in China and I
> live in Serbia:)

Oops, lucky you that Linux has so much connectivity :-)

> so I can't maintain my Linuxes and I can't risk crash system due to
> power loss.

I would try to let the core system run from a RAM disk and just store the
data on the harddrives. Btw: what kind of data do you want to store?

> InterBase need about 1.5MB for server and 1MB min for each clients so
> it mean that I am gonna need only 8MB :))) And thats good.

Looks small. Aren't there any free embedded databases out there? Could be
interesting for other projects, too...

> ReiserFS need minimum 35MB partitions on disk and I am not shure will
> I use Flash disks bigger than 20 MB. No I am learning about ext3 to
> see how it works.

Please keep the list informed about your progress. I assume you are not
the only one in the embedded world having this problem :-)

Robert
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