Build a busybox and uClibc bootable system

[jean-marie.verdun at splitted-desktop.org]

Hi Marco,

The best is to use buildroot, you will enjoy it and you will be able to 
produce very efficient image. I am using it for my project and have been 
able to boot  from ROM (not the easiest stuff to do), Compact Flash (using 
syslinux) or DVD (using iso and syslinux), so this is very flexible, the 
only one thing you have is to add a kernel.
I am using buildroot with 2 approaches, the first one to build an 
efficient "chroot" software development environment with everything 
installed (gcc, debuggers etc ...). My current image fits into 2GB, and 
one produced only with runtime library ( much more smaller around 256 MB, 
with striped binaries and a lot of applications installed).
If you need help feel free to ask through the mailing list or offline.

Jm

On Mon, 3 Jul 2006, Marco Ferra wrote:

> Hi
>
> First of all forgive me if this is a basic question.  I'm trying to build a mini distribution to be the firmware of an embedded system, but, initially i want to make a bootable CD of it. I was thinking on busybox and uClibc because they are small and fast, but i also need Python on this CD.  So my questions are these:
>
> 1.  I have gathered the x86 toolchain from http://uclibc.org/downloads/root_fs_i386.ext2.bz2 and loop mounted it. What are now the steps to build a busybox and uClibc only system (but bootable)?  I don't need all of the toolchain, and reducing the total space used is important.
>
> 2.  Will Python compile using uClibc ?
>
> Sincere regards,
> Marco Ferra
>
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