On Wed, Jan 21, 2015 at 3:53 PM, Rick Mann <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On Jan 21, 2015, at 13:43 , William Hermans <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> "super-paired-down distro" <---- definition required. But only reason why i >> mention that Rick is that Robert has a minimal root fs that for me sits at >> about 70-75M. Fully functional, but with stuff even like openssh-server >> missing. >> >> For going much smaller than 60-75M though you're talking BusyBox . . . >> >> Anyway, glad to talk more on that subject if you're game. > > I would like to talk more. I've seen some presentations and demos of Linux > booting in under a second. That's my primary goal. Secondary is maximizing > the free space on the eMMC for content (in my case, MP3 files). I haven't > really tried doing a lot in this regard for now, but would like to over the > next three months.
Usually those presentations are also trying to '$ell' their software stack to do that. > > And, I probably want to hang on to sshd, since logging in is helpful. But > long-term, if it can run my C++ app and the node.js UI I'm building on top of > it, and get the C++ app up and running in under 2 seconds, I'll be very happy > (the node.js can take longer to start). I'll need Wi-Fi networking, and even > that can come up after the C++ app has started, so long as the C++ app can > reliably keep trying to make a network connection. Regards, -- Robert Nelson http://www.rcn-ee.com/ -- For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "BeagleBoard" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
