On Nov 17, 2005, at 1:58 PM, John Huttley wrote:
Qiangning Hong wrote:
I'd like to turn an old 486 (32MB ram) to a file server accessable
via
samba&nfs&ftp. And I can telnet to it to change user passwords.
And it
should contain some small daemons written by myself (e.g. disk health
monitor).
I know I can start from stage1-x86-uclibc, but I found another
interesting project, GNAP. I have very little knowledge about
GNAP, but
I believe if it suits my requirement, it will reduce my affort a lot.
So, can GNAP help me make such a embedded system?
Yes, I use GNAP with success on soekris boxes.
The 4501 is equivalaent to a 486-133 with 64Mb ram.
It takes about 5 mins to boot though.
It uses standard baselayout scripts, and they are very slow to
execute.
I've rolled my own Gentoo embedded for the Soekris 45xx boards, using
the embedded baselayout and some scripts to ease the pain of creating
a full installation. It only takes 30 seconds or so to boot.
-Josh
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Kiva Systems
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