> > insmod is not currently in the busybox-cvs-udeb package, but can be > added, I don't know at what cost, but that gets rid of modutils-basic > (90684 B). > > busybox-cvs-udeb also has a few applets that I really don't understand > why they are there, like telnet, chroot and telnetd! I don't know how > much removing them shaves off of busybox. > chroot is used in a bunch of code - the lilo, grub code etc install lilo on /target then run chroot /target /sbin/lilo similarly for a lot of prebaseconfig stuff. It could be removed from the initial floppy, however. chroot and telnet are useful for fixing problems with net: eg config issues on the server - telnet in (ssh would be better, but too big) and solve them, (eg adding an address to a bootp server), then proceed. telnetd, I can't think of why thats there; was someone planning on doing installs remotely via telnetting into the client from the server ??? We should also think of what we need for a _rescue_ environment : chroot is useful there to fix lilo, etc. > Replacing pump, dash and busybox with busybox-cvs got me down to -15k. > Hopefully removing mkswap, swapon, swapoff, telnet, chroot and telnetd > brings us up to positive again. ;) Unfortunately, udhcpc in busybox-cvs > didn't seem to work. :/ > > > /Martin -- Alastair McKinstry <mckinstry@computer.org> GPG Key fingerprint = 9E64 E714 8E08 81F9 F3DC 1020 FA8E 3790 9051 38F4 He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself. - --Thomas Paine
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