[BusyBox] Base filesystem tarball for busybox?

Ole-Egil Hvitmyren oehvitmyren at network-electronics.com
Sun May 18 22:34:58 UTC 2003


Bruce Edge wrote:
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> Agreed there are too many options to have only one base fs. However, I think that devfs is one of only a few items that make dev filesystems incompatible with one another. They still all need the basics, inittab, passwd, group etc...
> 
> Ideally there would only be a few to choose from, each packaged up with a busybox .config file.
> 

While I see the argument that this should be done for each applications 
need, I must admit to drooling a bit over the idea of having a few 
standard configurations downloadable as example usage. Reading manuals 
is good for you, yes. But manual labour sucks :-)

How about a page where users could submit examples? For instance, I use 
busybox, glibc 2.3.1, apache, net-snmp and my own set of software. Maybe 
I'm not the biggest guru on this, but I'm sure someone, somewhere, would 
like to see how my system is configured for all this. Possibly because 
seeing what can be done might save you from going down the wrong road...

I like using glibc because then I don't need to cross compile, I can run 
the applications equally well on the host and the target without 
recompiling.

I guess I just volunteered to help create the page, right?



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