On Sun, Dec 23, 2001 at 09:51:25PM -0800, Rasmus Lerdorf wrote: > So, my question. What would you guys suggest as the base for a small > distro for this thing? I am thinking along the lines of using the > internal 16M of flash for the base OS without any user apps and then using > the external flash to be able to build different personalities for it. > The current Jailbait with all its little partitions with cramfs > filesystems is a real hassle to work with when you need to change > something. There must be a better way.
Yes, a JFFS2 filesystem on the flash. > uclibc looks like a good starting point, obviously busybox/tinylogin and > 2.4.17 with all the USB drivers since this little box has 4 USB ports and > that is the primary way to hook anything up to it. Konq-embedded or > Mozilla as the browser? Which can be made smaller? It would be good to > squeeze X and a browser onto the base image. > > Anybody out there working on something similar? The handhelds.org people have the "familiar" distribution for the Compaq Ipaq handheld computer series. It's ARM based, but they definitively managed to cram quite a lot on the flash, especially if you realise that arm-linux binaries are usually larger than i386 binaries. The source is out there, so you should be able to compile it for i386. See http://familiar.handhelds.org/ . Erik -- J.A.K. (Erik) Mouw, Information and Communication Theory Group, Faculty of Information Technology and Systems, Delft University of Technology, PO BOX 5031, 2600 GA Delft, The Netherlands Phone: +31-15-2783635 Fax: +31-15-2781843 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] WWW: http://www-ict.its.tudelft.nl/~erik/ -- To unsubscribe from this list, send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the command "unsubscribe linux-embedded" in the message body. For more information, see <http://waste.org/mail/linux-embedded>.
