The root disk is currently too bloated, on pmac and chrp its already too large to fit on a 1.44MB floppy. looking at busybox there is plenty of bloat that can be removed, i was able to bring /bin/busybox (current 0.61-1) down from 200792 bytes to 153088, a nearly 47k decrease. i have attached the Config.h diff below, some removals will break debootstrap, basename, dirname and yes are all i think will affect it, base/dirname can be trivially replaced using a simple shell substitution, yes can be replaced with: smallyes() { while true ; do echo y ; done } i am attaching the .diff here so people can give thier comments on the removals, so workarounds for anything i haven't considered can be developed, or if absolutly necessary the utility added back. these changes will however make busybox less pleasent to work with, i do not consider this relevant to boot-floppies, they need to be small not comfortable, for the busybox.deb this may or may not be undesireable, if this is a concern then these changes should be applied to a new busybox-bf package which would be used for boot-floppies instead of the normal .deb. if i don't hear anything in several days i will submit this patch as a bugreport to busybox. --- Config.h-deb.orig Sat Sep 1 23:23:36 2001 +++ Config.h-deb Sat Sep 1 23:51:39 2001 @@ -10,30 +10,30 @@ //#define BB_ADJTIMEX #define BB_AR //#define BB_ASH -#define BB_BASENAME +//#define BB_BASENAME #define BB_CAT #define BB_CHGRP #define BB_CHMOD #define BB_CHOWN #define BB_CHROOT -#define BB_CHVT +//#define BB_CHVT #define BB_CLEAR //#define BB_CMP #define BB_CP //#define BB_CPIO #define BB_CUT -#define BB_DATE +//#define BB_DATE //#define BB_DC #define BB_DD //#define BB_DEALLOCVT #define BB_DF -#define BB_DIRNAME +//#define BB_DIRNAME #define BB_DMESG //#define BB_DOS2UNIX //#define BB_DPKG //#define BB_DPKG_DEB //#define BB_DUTMP -#define BB_DU +//#define BB_DU //#define BB_DUMPKMAP #define BB_ECHO #define BB_ENV @@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ //#define BB_FBSET //#define BB_FDFLUSH #define BB_FIND -#define BB_FREE +//#define BB_FREE //#define BB_FREERAMDISK //#define BB_FSCK_MINIX //#define BB_GETOPT @@ -53,7 +53,7 @@ //#define BB_HOSTID //#define BB_HOSTNAME //#define BB_HUSH -#define BB_ID +//#define BB_ID //#define BB_IFCONFIG #define BB_INIT //#define BB_INSMOD @@ -92,12 +92,12 @@ #define BB_POWEROFF //#define BB_PRINTF #define BB_PS -#define BB_PWD +//#define BB_PWD //#define BB_RDATE //#define BB_READLINK #define BB_REBOOT //#define BB_RENICE -#define BB_RESET +//#define BB_RESET #define BB_RM #define BB_RMDIR //#define BB_RMMOD @@ -115,30 +115,30 @@ #define BB_TAR //#define BB_TEE //#define BB_TEST -#define BB_TELNET +//#define BB_TELNET //#define BB_TFTP #define BB_TOUCH #define BB_TR //#define BB_TRACEROUTE #define BB_TRUE_FALSE -#define BB_TTY +//#define BB_TTY //#define BB_UNIX2DOS //#define BB_UUENCODE //#define BB_UUDECODE #define BB_UMOUNT -#define BB_UNIQ +//#define BB_UNIQ #define BB_UNAME //#define BB_UPDATE -#define BB_UPTIME +//#define BB_UPTIME //#define BB_USLEEP -#define BB_VI +//#define BB_VI //#define BB_WATCHDOG #define BB_WC #define BB_WGET #define BB_WHICH #define BB_WHOAMI -#define BB_XARGS -#define BB_YES +//#define BB_XARGS +//#define BB_YES // End of Applications List // // @@ -194,7 +194,7 @@ #define BB_FEATURE_LS_TIMESTAMPS // // enable ls -p and -F -#define BB_FEATURE_LS_FILETYPES +//#define BB_FEATURE_LS_FILETYPES // // sort the file names #define BB_FEATURE_LS_SORTFILES @@ -206,13 +206,13 @@ #define BB_FEATURE_LS_FOLLOWLINKS // // Disable for a smaller (but less functional) ping -#define BB_FEATURE_FANCY_PING +//#define BB_FEATURE_FANCY_PING // // Make init use a simplified /etc/inittab file (recommended). #define BB_FEATURE_USE_INITTAB // //Enable init being called as /linuxrc -#define BB_FEATURE_LINUXRC +//#define BB_FEATURE_LINUXRC // //Have init enable core dumping for child processes (for debugging only) //#define BB_FEATURE_INIT_COREDUMPS @@ -221,14 +221,14 @@ //#define BB_FEATURE_EXTRA_QUIET // // enable syslogd -R remotehost -#define BB_FEATURE_REMOTE_LOG +//#define BB_FEATURE_REMOTE_LOG // // enable syslogd -C //#define BB_FEATURE_IPC_SYSLOG // //Disable for a simple tail implementation (2.34k vs 3k for the full one). //Both provide 'tail -f', but this cuts out -c, -q, -s, and -v. -#define BB_FEATURE_FANCY_TAIL +//#define BB_FEATURE_FANCY_TAIL // // Enable support for loop devices in mount #define BB_FEATURE_MOUNT_LOOP @@ -249,16 +249,16 @@ #define BB_FEATURE_TAR_CREATE // // Enable support for "--exclude" and "-X" for excluding files -#define BB_FEATURE_TAR_EXCLUDE +//#define BB_FEATURE_TAR_EXCLUDE // // Enable support for tar -z option (currently only works for inflating) #define BB_FEATURE_TAR_GZIP // // Enable reverse sort -#define BB_FEATURE_SORT_REVERSE +//#define BB_FEATURE_SORT_REVERSE // // Enable uniqe sort -#define BB_FEATURE_SORT_UNIQUE +//#define BB_FEATURE_SORT_UNIQUE // // Enable command line editing in the shell. // Only relevant if a shell is enabled. On by default. @@ -334,7 +334,7 @@ #define BB_FEATURE_INSTALLER // // Enable a nifty progress meter in wget (adds just under 2k) -#define BB_FEATURE_WGET_STATUSBAR +//#define BB_FEATURE_WGET_STATUSBAR // // Enable HTTP authentication in wget #define BB_FEATURE_WGET_AUTHENTICATION -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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