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Beside the kernel your target platform needs a root filesystem, which contains all necessary binaries to bootstrap the system until you get a login program and a shell.<br> |
Beside the kernel your target platform needs a root filesystem, which contains all necessary binaries to bootstrap the system until you get a login program and a shell.<br> |
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For embedded systems the [http://www.busybox.net/ busybox] collection provides a huge set of common UNIX tools in one binary. This method saves some space on flash and the different commands are symlinked to the "busybox" binsray. |
For embedded systems the [http://www.busybox.net/ busybox] collection provides a huge set of common UNIX tools in one binary. This method saves some space on flash and the different commands are symlinked to the "busybox" binsray. |
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= Busybox = |
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* Get the source tarball from busybox.net: |
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$ wget http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.2.1.tar.bz2 |
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'''TODO''' |
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* Unpack |
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* Patch |
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* Build |
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* Copy to root directory and make symlinks |
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= Initscripts = |
= Initscripts = |
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Latest revision as of 21:01, 19 September 2006
Beside the kernel your target platform needs a root filesystem, which contains all necessary binaries to bootstrap the system until you get a login program and a shell.
For embedded systems the busybox collection provides a huge set of common UNIX tools in one binary. This method saves some space on flash and the different commands are symlinked to the "busybox" binsray.
Busybox
- Get the source tarball from busybox.net:
$ wget http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.2.1.tar.bz2
TODO
- Unpack
- Patch
- Build
- Copy to root directory and make symlinks
Initscripts
$ svn co svn://sarsvn.informatik.hu-berlin.de/BerlinRoofNet/trunk/platform/wgt634u/rootfs root