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Re: Problems with building the Alpha-bootdisks



On Wed, Jul 25, 2001 at 09:26:47AM -0600, Erik Andersen wrote:
> If you find stuff that is enabled that shouldn't be, please do let me/us know
> by posting to the list.  I'm about to make a new busybox package in the next
> hour or two, so now would be a good time to mention any needed changes.  Of
> course, there are many new releases where this one came from if you find things
> later on...

Well, I hope that this might save some precious space on the disk:
could you enable all the module-stuff (insmod, modprobe, ...)? On
Alpha the real binaries eat about 130k and the busybox-binary 282k. If
there are no problems, "route" may also be activated, even if it is
only 87k in size, but remember that we need ~200k extra-space
(compressed!) on the rootdisk to get everything squeezed on a
1.4M-floppy.

How is the shell-part of busybox? Is it useable and compatible enough
to run all the shellscripts needed for the boot-process? I just ask
because ash has annother 150k :)

Well, I don't know if putting all of this in busybox will actually
save that much space but IMHO it is worth looking into it (if it
works).

CU
   Thimo

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Thimo Neubauer <thimo@debian.org>
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