On Wednesday 09 August 2006 19:39, Mike Frysinger wrote: > On Wednesday 09 August 2006 18:36, Philippe Clérié wrote: > > The default configuration of busybox (1.1.3) installs a /bin/bb > > executable to which nothing apparently is linked. I renamed it, played > > with a few applets and so far nothing is broken. What is that bb for? > > it's a standalone static rescue shell > > broken system ? boot with init=/bin/bb
:-) OK! Thanks. > > > I am discovering that python is really not something I might want > > installed on a small system. The base package is about 22MB on disk. 2/3 > > of that it seems are pyc and pyo files. Plus there are quite a few > > packages I don't anticipate needing. Can we reduce that footprint? Or do > > I have to give up on python? > > it's your system so only you know if you really need python > I was hoping to do the web interface with python. I knew there was going to be a penalty, I hadn't expected it to be so bad. I would like to stay under 16MB for the root ramdisk, but it looks like it's damn near impossible with python. Time to look for alternatives. Philippe -- [email protected] mailing list
