Hi, thanks for everyones advice, ive not got networking and debconf working.
Busybox is a multicall binary that provides a set (about 100) small common utilities, it is used by the debian-installer to make the root disk. I disabled some of its features (below) and it compile into a 710KB static binary, or 162KB dynamic binary. The following busybox functions DONT compile easily under the Hurd dmesg fbset (doesnt apply to the Hurd) free gunzip gzip init insmod (doesnt apply to the Hurd) loadacm loadfont lsmod (doesnt apply to the Hurd) mkswap mount ping rmmod (doesnt apply to the Hurd) swaponoff syslogd umount update uptime which I had to make a few small changes and then everything else compiles, but i have not tested the functionality. Busybox could possible be used to make Hurd rescue floppy(s), i dont know enough about the Hurd boot procedure yet though. There is a linux busybox deb around somewhere, but its not in the main archive.. not sure exactly where it is, source is at busybox.lineo.com though. Glenn
