On Sat, 17 Sep 2011 13:27:45 -0700 Mark Knecht <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Then I get confused. I get to Applications and I'm sort of lost > > here. In there it talks about copying nano and its friends over to > > the init directory. Then below that it says to use busybox. Well, > > which is it? Do I do both of those or just one? > > > > It's been a while for me but I believe it's both. I think busybox is > the thing that gives you command line tools like cd, ls, pwd, etc. > However you also can include applications in your initramfs that give > you more access to the hardware or the net. True. Busybox is a tiny userland implementing most of the common options for most of the common Unix commands. When you log into your ADSL router/modem and get a shell, it's probably busybox running there, not GNU util-linux stuff. Binary distros often put busybox in their initrds as it doubles up as a rescue environment and busybox is many times smaller than the full GNU stuff. It's up to you if you want to do that or not; if all you use an initrd for is a convenient place to store drivers to be able to mount /usr, then you will have no need for busybox in it. -- Alan McKinnnon [email protected]
