[plug] initrd

[Shayne O'Neill]

Yeah. I used to do a little embedded work (hated it. the dev/test cycle is
painfully slow, and the toolchain is sparse as hell). You really only need
this;-

Kernel. (Try the ucLinux if you can. Its tiny , but thread/fork support
sucks)
uclibc or glibc. again uclib is tiny, but its not featureful.
busybox, with apropriate symlinkage.

and maybe boa webserver.

I'd suggest grabbing axis's distro for its axis development kits. You'd
have to screw around retargeting the kernel back to i386 , but its
probably just some tweaks to config. But that little sucker fits the whole
lot in under a meg, boots almost instant (10 seconds thereabouts..
admitedly off flashrom) and 'just works'.

add in sshd, and even smb for cleverness, and its a really useful kit :)

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On Sat, 10 Apr 2004, Onno Benschop wrote:

> Hi folks,
>
> I've finally got a little time to get my car mp3 player running. I was
> initially looking for a bootable CD that just did this, but haven't
> found one yet.
>
> I went on to find a way to boot a machine - as fast as possible (sub 30
> seconds) - and have it playing music.
>
> I stumbled on the idea of building an initrd that does this, but I'm
> also reading conflicting reports that this is fast becoming obsolete.
>
> Ideally all I want is to devote <2Mb of disk space to a linux install
> that leaves my drive in read-only, runs from RAM and plays MP3's off the
> drive - I'm even prepared to loose any history so when you power it off,
> it just starts again.
>
> It would be nice if I could control it via my Sony Clie, but that isn't
> a priority.
>
> Comments - rtfm etc?
>
> I know about: wimpy, otto, mc-foo, giantdisc - and I'm sure I've looked
> at others but I forget.
>
> Onno Benschop
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