On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 4:55 PM, Mohan Sundaram<[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 4:24 PM, Krishna<[email protected]> wrote: >> 4. package management is not possible atleast for this type of image as its >> a single image containing kernel and file system , and on boot up the image >> is loaded on RAM. since it is combined, the particular partition say mtd1 >> (5MB size) will have kernel for 1 MB size and filesystem follows it , so i >> cannot mount the file system.
I also suspect you are working with standard unix/linux OS utilities and so it seems bloated. In embedded systems, it is normal to use Busybox which is a single executable that can substitute about 50 commands/ utilities albiet with limited options which suffice most often. Links need to be created in /bin for every utility with the utility name as argument to busybox. It is an extremely nifty piece of work and is thus appropriately referred to as the Swiss Knife for embedded systems. [1] You can look up these for a shell scripted web server example [2] [3]. Reading these reminded me that you could use socat as an alternative with its myriad and powerful options. [4] Mohan Sundaram Links: [1] http://www.busybox.net [2] http://nc110.sourceforge.net/ [3] http://www.debian-administration.org/article/A_web_server_in_a_shell_script [4] http://freshmeat.net/projects/socat/ [5] http://www.dest-unreach.org/socat/doc/socat.html _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, email [email protected] with "unsubscribe <password> <address>" in the subject or body of the message. http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
