[BusyBox] Busybox- tutorial needed for installing -- diff installs ??

[John van Vlaaderen]

Hi -- I have been lurking, my last admin work w/ busybox/uClibc was in 
early October.  I took a long drive around the US to relieve lingering 
symptoms from PTSD from working at the WTC disaster the day of the 
attack.

Since then there have been remarkable strides in the LinuxBIOS field.  I 
have been concentrating on Initrd as part of my work for the Devil-Linux 
project, but LinuxBIOS seems to be making Initrd obsolete.  Initrd - rd 
for ram disk - is showing its age - should be virtual file system - yet 
it is key to booting Linux.

Creating sophisticated tutorials for both Initrd and LinuxBIOS, I 
believe, is key to recruiting testers to assure that busy box (and 
uClibc, I suppose) dont miss out on key testing.

Furthermore, many people on the busybox and uClibc lists seem interested 
in evoloving  new OSs from linux, I see these two projects key to 
initiating the process.

It has been slow going, but I am building a semi-portal to support these 
kinds of projects.

John


On Saturday, January 25, 2003, at 07:01 AM, Nick Fedchik wrote:

On Sat, 25 Jan 2003, Andrew Sim wrote:

     Hi all, I am looking for a updated tutorial to install and
     run busybox.
     I downloaded busybox and I think i didnt managed to get it
work.
     because when i type mksf.minix --> command not found.
     Anyway how u tell if it really been install properly ?

BTW: I also has no usage messages for
fsck.minix
mkfs.minix
start_stop_daemos

IADM, it's depends on applet.h/usage.h declarations, namelly by
'_' symbol.

But after clear recompiling of latest code, it's still have a
place for
[root at fusion sbin]# ./pivot_root
BusyBox v0.61.pre (2003.01.25-11:29+0000) multi-call binary

Usage: busybox [function] [arguments]...
    or: [function] [arguments]...
...

and
[root at fusion bin]# ./dpkg-deb
dpkg-deb: (null): Bad address

Any ideas?

--
Nick Fedchik, FNM3-RIPE(UANIC)
Internet Dept./ISP UkrSat, Kiev, Ukraine
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