On Fri, 23 Jan 2004 14:37, you wrote: > On Fri, Jan 23, 2004 at 02:19:13PM NZDT, Andrew Errington wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I have built an MP3 player box at home. Well, I built one ages ago but > > the hard drive expired, so I made it network boot instead. > > [snip] > > > I had it all going without Lirc in less than 4Mb, but adding Lirc > > involves compiling more stuff into IRMP3, so it's too tight. I am > > using busybox to keep things small, and I have a very minimal set of > > files to boot the machine with. The kernel is 2.4.18 from Debian 3.0 > > distribution. > > Have you considered linking against diet-libc or uClibc? I think > busybox already uses a light libc, but your extra tools might not.
Thanks, but a lot of the stuff is precompiled (from the Debian distro), so I just want to increase the amount of space I allow myself. > Good luck. It would be nice to see the steps you've taken. Are you > planning to publish the results when you're done? Well I suppose I could. It seems there are a lot of HOWTOs for this already, and I don't think I have done anything new. I did find that the information was a bit, er, scattered, so maybe it would be helpful for me to say exactly what I did, but then again, what I did may not be relevant to what other people want to do. If there is any interest (please mail me off list) then I'll put something up. Andy -- Now playing: The Victor Silvester Orchestra Big Band - March Of The Mods (Party)
