[Devil-linux-develop] cdrecord, busybox, tinylogin, uClibc, initrd, virt f/s

[John v. V. <joh...@ya...>]

Hello all,

Right now I am building a busybox w/ tinylogin that will include grub and
parted -- all from the latest sources.

From there I will startup a disk install and develop build and burn components
from build-iso with additions from the excellent lvm_createinitrd script.

It will be built w/ uClibc and I will try to include as many DL apps as I can
find time for -- including cdrecord.

I will also put the entire linuxfromscratch package install on a large
partition and begin the tedious process of giving this install a gcc suite
robust enough to build a kernel from the DL .config file with additions for
cdrecord/ide-scsi.  I imagine other apps will require libraries from
Linuxfromscratch.

I will also look at Initrd itself to see where development is headed wrt to Bz2
and the Virtual file system -- rather than gzip and ramdisk.

As I go along I will be making changes to DL scripts esp initrd/linuxrc and
init/boot -- save-config needs to be modified to allow a "virgin save" to the
floppy... building an ext2 f/s and catting that to the floppy... hmmm...

I am getting a lot of downloads of the various tools I have.  I want to get CVS
going but that is very tedious.

Cheers, having fun here hacking DL, John




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