On Fri, 2005-06-17 at 17:34 +1000, Eugene Rosenzweig wrote: > Ow Mun Heng wrote: > > >On Thu, 2005-06-16 at 21:23 -0700, Zac Medico wrote: > > > > > >>Ow Mun Heng wrote: > >> > >> > >>>>>I'm talking about something stripped down. Perhaps not to a size of 8MB > >>>>>but something less than 100MB would be good. > >>>>> > >>>>>How does one do that? > >>>>> > >>>>>This will be a box which will not have portage included once everything > >>>>>is up. > >>>>> > >>>>>Most likely will be building with uclibc and the uclibc stage1. > >>>>> > >>>>>Any other pointers? And how does one substitute bash(and others) with > >>>>>busybox can it be defined up front so it portage doesn't pull in the > >>>>>dependencies etc? > >>>>> > >>>>> > >>>>> > >>>>Have you seen this howto? > >>>> > >>>>http://gentoo-wiki.com/Embedded_Gentoo > >>>> > >>>>It recommends for you to chroot into a stage3 and then use the ROOT > >>>>evironment variable to make portage install into an empty filesystem. > >>>> > >>>> > >>>Well, it I haven't I most certainly will this weekend then. > >>>Thanks. > >>> > >>>Anyone Else has experience with using GNAP? Gentoo Network Appliance > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>Also, did you know about the gentoo-embedded mailing list? > >> > >>http://marc.10east.com/?l=gentoo-embedded&r=1&w=2 > >> > >> > > > >Again.. something I didn't know.. Thanks. I do know about the > >gentoo-embedded irc channel but no one ever talks in there and there's > >no activity whatsover there at all. > > > >:-) > > > >Thanks again. > > > > > >>Zac > >> > >> > Are you aiming for a general purpose system or an 'appliance'? I don't > have any experience with embedded stuff but if you want it as a desktop > machine there are a few things you could do.
I want it as an appliance. Thanks -- Ow Mun Heng Gentoo/Linux on DELL D600 1.4Ghz 1.5GB RAM 98% Microsoft(tm) Free!! Neuromancer 16:06:50 up 1 day, 5:26, 5 users, load average: 0.54, 0.36, 0.32 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
