On Thu, 2006-09-07 at 15:10 +0200, Nico Berndt wrote: > Nico Berndt schrieb: > Hi again! > > So I got down with it and the system is down to 50 mb already still > shrinking.. Once I have a replacement for vim it will be good. > > I don't need it to be awfully small, but I will target around 20 mb > maybe, vim takes around 30! > > Now the next big question arises: How can I make it load into ram > entirely, so I can put the system on a flashdisk? > > Any nice hints anybody? > > Regards, > ../nico
Hi, how about busybox ... it includes almost everything a basic system needs, also a vi, staticly linked about 1.3MB (glibc-3.6). To make it work from ram just use an initrd. Make a out of /dev/zero file of desired size, put a filesystem on it, mount it loopback, copy your darn smal system [DSS] to it, unmount it, gzip it and load it as initrd with your kernel ... -- H CUH Rainer Peter Feller H -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-chat FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
