Re: [dev] Minimal distributions

From: Ciprian Dorin Craciun <ciprian.craciun_AT_gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2012 22:12:46 +0200

On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 9:45 PM, Ciprian Dorin Craciun
<ciprian.craciun_AT_gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 9:23 PM, Jens Nyberg <jens.nyberg_AT_gmail.com> wrote:
>> I haven't followed this discussion so I'm sorry if have misunderstood
>> what you are after. When I want to have a small distro for some
>> specialized task I usually just combine the kernel with busybox to get
>> something very simple and then I just compile and add whatever program
>> I might need. If this is an option I could give you the url to the git
>> repository I use that you can easily just checkout and run make in and
>> it will give you a compiled kernel with a absolutly minimal cpio
>> ramdisk containing only busybox and some scripts needed in order to
>> boot.
>
>
> :) Yes... Forgot about that option, which I've applied myself a
> couple of times.
>
> Thus below you'll find a link to a repository, for a minimal Linux
> which automates desktop disk deployment and auto-update system, which
> has the following variants:
> * `cpio` for initrd usage;
> * ISO image for disk burning;
> * disk image for USB stick;
> * PXE for network booting;
>
> Although it's quite domain specific, just by replacing some
> configuration files, see the `*.cpiodl`, you could make it build
> something else.
>
> Could you also provide the link to your repository? (I'm curios of
> your solution.) :)
>
> Ciprian.

    Ups... Forgot the link. :)

      https://github.com/cipriancraciun/senbos
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