Re: Small distros (was: [beagleboard] debian testing: 2015-01-19)

2015-01-22 Thread William Hermans
*I would like to talk more. I've seen some presentations and demos of Linux booting in under a second. That's my primary goal. Secondary is maximizing the free space on the eMMC for content (in my case, MP3 files). I haven't really tried doing a lot in this regard for now, but would like to

Re: Small distros (was: [beagleboard] debian testing: 2015-01-19)

2015-01-22 Thread Graham
Rick: You are building a tube radio simulator Get some Orange LEDs and put them in the box under dimmer control. Tell them the boot delay is the filaments warming up. Why do you need 1 second? :-) I time a BBB Rev C, booting off a uSD card with Debian 7.7 Console up and running in 20 seconds.

Re: Small distros (was: [beagleboard] debian testing: 2015-01-19)

2015-01-22 Thread William Hermans
*I definitely don't need NFS, nor really the ability to build packages on the BBB. In fact, I'd love to get to where I'm cross-compiling everything, and building a tarball I can easily transfer over. Eventually, I want my app to be able to update itself, if not the entire filesystem.*

Re: Small distros (was: [beagleboard] debian testing: 2015-01-19)

2015-01-22 Thread Rick Mann
On Jan 22, 2015, at 07:25 , William Hermans yyrk...@gmail.com wrote: I would like to talk more. I've seen some presentations and demos of Linux booting in under a second. That's my primary goal. Secondary is maximizing the free space on the eMMC for content (in my case, MP3 files). I

Re: Small distros (was: [beagleboard] debian testing: 2015-01-19)

2015-01-22 Thread Rick Mann
I think we're talking at cross purposes here. I just want a BBB that boots very fast. Secondarily, I want to maximize space on the eMMC for content. Thirdly, I'd prefer to do builds on a host computer, not on the BBB. It's slow, and requires a bunch more stuff to be installed on it. I just

Re: Small distros (was: [beagleboard] debian testing: 2015-01-19)

2015-01-21 Thread Drew Fustini
Sounds like you might something derived from Yocto Project. We just had a presentation at my hackerspace about the Yocto Project and Open Enea Linux: http://www.meetup.com/NERP-Not-Exclusively-Raspberry-Pi/events/219669847/ The speaker, Mark Mills of Enea, gave a demo of running Open Enea Linux

Re: Small distros (was: [beagleboard] debian testing: 2015-01-19)

2015-01-21 Thread Robert Nelson
On Wed, Jan 21, 2015 at 4:02 PM, Drew Fustini pdp7p...@gmail.com wrote: Sounds like you might something derived from Yocto Project. We just had a presentation at my hackerspace about the Yocto Project and Open Enea Linux:

Re: Small distros (was: [beagleboard] debian testing: 2015-01-19)

2015-01-21 Thread Robert Nelson
On Wed, Jan 21, 2015 at 3:53 PM, Rick Mann rm...@latencyzero.com wrote: On Jan 21, 2015, at 13:43 , William Hermans yyrk...@gmail.com wrote: super-paired-down distro definition required. But only reason why i mention that Rick is that Robert has a minimal root fs that for me sits at

Small distros (was: [beagleboard] debian testing: 2015-01-19)

2015-01-21 Thread Rick Mann
On Jan 21, 2015, at 13:43 , William Hermans yyrk...@gmail.com wrote: super-paired-down distro definition required. But only reason why i mention that Rick is that Robert has a minimal root fs that for me sits at about 70-75M. Fully functional, but with stuff even like openssh-server