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Re: how to build customized inird.bin ?

thx, for your answer.
but i think this is currently a little too hard for me to get done.
i would like to have a crosscompile environment where i can add my changes easily. 
thx anyway, and maybe that is something which comes someday......

greets, peter


Matt Zimmerman wrote:


On Thu, Apr 24, 2003 at 12:58:08PM +0200, Peter Hermsdorf wrote:


i just tried the provided inird.bin with debian and it worked.

i would like to create a customized version of the image file. are there
somewhere a bunch of scipts/makefiles that compiles the sources and
creates the initrd.bin image file ?

btw: i already have some experience using the openzaurus buildroot and i`m
looking for something similar for debian on zaurus....


I built those images natively on the Zaurus, not by cross-compiling, so the
process is very straightforward (though slow).  It is basically a
debootstrap, with some extra (nonessential) packages installed, then with
some bits removed like documentation.

Then use "mkfs.jffs2 --pad=14811135 --eraseblock=0x20000 --little-endian" to
create the image.  In order to get it to fit, I had to add hardlink support
to mkfs.jffs2 (patch in the BTS under mtd-tools).

Here is the process I used for stripping down the system:

       rm -rf /tmp/initrd
       mkdir /tmp/initrd
       cp -a ...nfs export.../* /tmp/initrd

       # Remove cruft from using the tree for a live system
       rm -rf /tmp/initrd/var/cache/apt/*.bin \
               /tmp/initrd/var/cache/apt/archives/*.deb \
               /tmp/initrd/var/lib/apt/lists/debian*

       find /tmp/initrd \( -name '*~' -o -name '*.dpkg-*' -o -name '.nfs*' \) -print0 \
               | xargs -0 rm -f

       # And remove some useful stuff that we can live without
       rm -rf /tmp/initrd/usr/doc /tmp/initrd/usr/share/doc \
               /tmp/initrd/usr/man /tmp/initrd/usr/share/man \
               /tmp/initrd/usr/share/locale \
               /tmp/initrd/var/lib/dpkg/info/*.md5sums \
               /tmp/initrd/var/lib/dpkg/*-old \
               /tmp/initrd/etc/X11/xkb \
               /tmp/initrd/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/locale/[^C]* \
               /tmp/initrd/usr/X11R6/include/X11 \
               /tmp/initrd/sbin/fsck.ext3 \
               /tmp/initrd/usr/bin/localedef \
               /tmp/initrd/usr/bin/apt-cdrom \
               /tmp/initrd/lib/libslang* \
               /tmp/initrd/usr/share/info \
               /tmp/initrd/usr/X11R6/lib/libXft.so* \
               /tmp/initrd/usr/lib/libfreetype.so* \
               /tmp/initrd/usr/lib/gconv

       rm -rf /tmp/initrd/tmp
       mkdir /tmp/initrd/tmp
       chmod 1777 /tmp/initrd/tmp
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