On 5/30/06, Surajram Kumaravel <surajram@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Today I tried rolling my own distro...based on uClibC & busy box...But my
plan failed and my comp was nowhere close to Usability (i Used a LFS6 live
CD as my development Environment). The buildroot Package seems to be an
Ideal Solution to my Idea but since i did not have enough time today I
simply downloaded the Root_fs file from the ftp.iitm.ac.in mirror of
uclibc
(ftp://ftp.iitm.ac.in/pub/linux/libs/uclibc) after that mounted the
extracted file via a loop device and copied all the files over to my hdd
(the old 8gb one) after adding a kernel image and boot loader (GRUB) the
system was highly to my taste it takes only 8 seconds to boot in single
user
mode with init directly launching /bin/sh and has the basic tool chain
etc... But still this has few packages like Dropbear Which Made my Second
bootup in the normal mode halt midway... I was thinking wether it woud be
possible to have a PC using a root filesystem constructed Using Buildroot
with options of i686