Dear Karl, in message <C08678384BE7D311B4D70004ACA371050B76351E at amer22.avnet.com> you wrote: > > My filesystem is 5.7 MB uncompressed. And, for me > (sorry Wolfgang!) I think that *is* minimal. Well, > not "minimal" in the sense of "as small as humanly > possible", but at least "miniature" -- compared to > more than 1000 MB for my desktop Linux host. Our board > isn't big: it has 16 MB of flash & 64 MB of RAM, > can serve up telnet sessions & web pages, etc., and
Well, that's about what SELF contains - which takes about 2.2 MB uncompressed, 830 kB compressed. > * One doesn't just make a zip or .tgz file; rather, > one must must make a filesystem structure per se, > that Linux on the PPC board can mount. There are patches out there that can load a .tgz file into a ramdisk upon boot, so instead a ramdisk image you can load a tarball. > * I could bulk-copy (cp -R) from $xroot to the > filesystem image, *but* you can't cp around the > files in /dev. The script below is hackish You can. RTFM. Pay attention to options like '-a' or '-R'. Wolfgang Denk -- Software Engineering: Embedded and Realtime Systems, Embedded Linux Phone: (+49)-8142-4596-87 Fax: (+49)-8142-4596-88 Email: wd at denx.de "If you can, help others. If you can't, at least don't hurt others." - the Dalai Lama ** Sent via the linuxppc-embedded mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/
