Greetings,

Check out spraah2.pdf and the ramdisk image they suggest I used it to
get a really small image onto both NOR and NAND. I think its about 6mb.


Andrew



On Tue, 2007-01-23 at 08:41 -0600, Lloyd Sargent wrote:
> On Monday 22 January 2007 18:54, Kevin Hilman wrote:
> > There are two ways to do this.
> > Start from the existing and pick away 
> > packages until you have what you want.
> 
> I've tried this and ended up with a system that didn't boot. :(
> 
> If you go this route you REALLY need to know exactly what you are eliminating 
> (as builds are not exactly fast).
> 
> This I would consider to be the HARD route to go.
> 
> > Or, start from
> > busybox/buildroot and add packages until you have what you want.  The
> > latter is the best way to get the smallest rootfs, but if you have 16M,
> > you may be able to get there using the former.
> 
> If you are using Busybox, download the latest from their website. DO note 
> that 
> they have some restrictions (and are very cranky about violators).
> 
> We went this route and added what we needed. Granted, it isn't tiny (35 meg), 
> but then we also haven't optimized it as yet.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Lloyd
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