Jeff Ramin wrote: > I've got a net4526, and I'd like to find the smallest linux > possible to run on it, leaving as much space as possible for > applications. > > Anybody have recommendations? I'd like to minimize both the > filesystem size (to conserve flash space) and the amount of > memory used by the kernel. > > I'm new to the world of embedded linux. I've installed Pyramid > linux on my board, and it currently uses 53MB flash and 26MB RAM. > Can I do better than that?
Yeah, Astlinux can do better than that. There's a development environment based off buildroot. I've build images as small as 8mb for use as a dedicated dns server. The website [1] is down (was down last I looked), but the dev environment is available at the source forge site [2]. [1]: http://www.astlinux.org [2]: http://sourceforge.net/projects/astlinux/ Darrick -- Darrick Hartman DJH Solutions, LLC http://www.djhsolutions.com _______________________________________________ Soekris-tech mailing list [email protected] http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
