Re: takes 'forever' to get past tux / vDSL
Hello Achim,
On Sat, Dec 20, 2008 at 11:32:10 +0100, __@ing-buero-unger.de wrote:
> out of curiosity I tested vDSL. It is realy great and has all the things
> needed: ssh, sshd, rxvt, screen, mc, wget and fluxbox and
Well, some tools like wget are provided as part of busybox, so they do
not include all functions of their full-blown pendants. There are also
no manpages. So it is definitely not a system for beginners.
The mini X environment consists of Xfbdev (X server depending on the
kernel framebuffer, so it is limited to the resolutions you get with
"vga=..." when booting the kernel), fluxbox as window manager, xinit-loop
as a simple xinit replacement which (re)starts X or fluxbox, and some X
applications like rxvt, vncviewer, xaos and imaze :)
The vDSL kernel has no patches, uses in-tree drivers only and is
updated from time to time. I keep the boot process of vDSL as simple as
possible. The bootloader just loads the kernel and one big initial ramfs,
containing all the files. There is no need to find the boot device after
the bootloader has finished its task, because everything is already
in RAM. Therefore I try to keep the image size of 30MB.
The very simple and stupid hardware detection is entirely based on
"modalias" entries in sysfs (look at the "/sbin/hwprobe" shell script).
> german keyboard, which is a problem for non german people.
The german keymap is just used by default. If one uses "dslen" at the
boot prompt or types "loadkeys us" at the bash prompt after booting,
the keymap will be US english.
> And it is realy very small, 30 MB compressed Imagesize, 151MB RAM used,
> but 123MB are Cached! It should run OK with less than 64 MB even with X.
No, 128MB RAM is minimum because of the implicit "toram" function. The
booted system uses about 85MB just for the ramfs contents. If you start
programs, more RAM will be used.
> It even recognises my new, very cheap HAMA USB Wlan with WPA2 :-)
Nice :) Which chipset/driver does it use?
Greetings,
Chris
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