This reduces the ramdisk installer size with a few megabytes when gzipped,
but with about 40 MB when unpacked in memory.
There are a few improvements possible:
- strip the binaries. This saves another few MBs.
- only copy the binaries we really need to /bin or /sbin. This could reduce
the size of the installer a lot, especially with util-linux, of which we
don't use that many tools at all.
- try to move some packages we link with glibc right now (like util-linux) to
dietlibc. This will not work for bash, already tried that.
- try to use busybox as a replacement for everything.
svn path=/nixu/trunk/; revision=4428
- have mingetty listen on tty2 (but this still fails because of missing /dev/log
- get rid of /init on the targetdrive, solely use /sbin/init (and even that has to go one day)
- use dietlibc statically linked e2fsprogs for the installer. More to come :)
svn path=/nixu/trunk/; revision=3734
two main steps:
1 - first build everything (nix-push)
2 - install everything on a seperate disk/machine (nix-pull)
svn path=/nixu/trunk/; revision=3291
virtual consoles 0 and 1. To shutdown, do `init 0' (`halt' and
`shutdown' don't work because they call /sbin/init).
svn path=/nixu/trunk/; revision=803
