Re: boot-floppies, busybox size reduction status
On Tue Oct 02, 2001 at 06:58:47PM -0700, David Kimdon wrote:
> I just completed an install with a reduced busybox. We are now using
> route and ifconfig from busybox (no bb ash, see below). Comparing new
> and old, mounted via loop.
>
> /home/dwhedon/new 3415 2501 914 74% /new
> /home/dwhedon/old 3414 2634 780 78% /old
>
> That's uncompressed savings, BTW.
So Adam, is it agreeable that I upload a version of busybox to the
main archive with these changes? David has now validated that
this is viable and saves space.
> I couldn't get bb ash to work properly, segfault (Bug #114260).
I'll dig into this and find the problem -- but I will leave ash out
for the time being.
-Erik
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