Re: Thoughts on the state of the boot-floppies
On Mon, Nov 22, 1999 at 02:16:40AM -0700 , Erik Andersen wrote:
> I ran soma basic tests on the boot floppies this evening,
> and here are some thoughts on what I saw:
>
> * booting rescue disk as "rescue" causes a kernel panic
with what root= ?
> * mount reports /dev/root for the root device since /etc/fstab
> doesn't have an entry for the root device (/dev/ram1 for example).
so?
> * There should probably be an /etc/nsswitch.conf file in /etc.
yes
> * /lib/libm.so.6 is 111k. I didn't check who was using it,
> but if it is just one app it should be staticly linked.
> If several apps are using it, it should be passed through
> the library shrinking pass.
on the rescue floppy propably nothing
> * ash should have command editing via arrow keys. I have a patch
> to do this. adds < .5k
propably
> * It would be really nice if ash command history were turned on.
It would. What about size increase. I thought I saw something about this on
-devel, with the result, that ash is not intended for interactive use ..
> * We include both cfdisk (50k) and fdisk (85k). Why not pick just one,
> or use sfdisk (included in busybox -- costs 34k).
hmm. Discusion about this was IMHO also when releasing slink. cfdisk and fdisk
are a bit different in functionality and error recovery
> * vi invokes lazybox feeding the nonexistent /etc/ae/ae2vi.rc
> which hoses the shell
vi should die as pre discusion on -devel. I thought somebudy changed this
already.
> * lazybox grep is obsolete -> use busybox.
yes
> * lazybox mformat is a nop
BTW why it is there in the first place?
Petr Cech
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