[Trinux-talk] Re: Re: Re: Question about Trinux 0.70 on HD

[Matthew F. <mf...@ci...>]

>     why use minix filesystem? Just because busybox don't provide
> mke2fs and fsck ?

Busybox does support ext2fs I just didn't include the utilites to save
space.  Minix filesystems are significantly smaller that ext2.  That is
how I was able to fit the initrd.gz to only 580k and fit a 600k + kernel
on the boot floppy.

>     Is "askfirst" only provided by busybox? I find the code
> on busybox but I can't find it on GNU's SysVinit.

As far as I know.  The init is still not where I'd like it to be.  The
getty's aren't working yet, as I have had some problems with Tinylogin
(another Busybox-like project, that contains binaries for login, passwd,
getty, etc.)

>     
>     On trinux , do you changed the GNU's glibc to reduce it's size?
> Does all GNU glibc 's function provided on trinux?

Actually, the libc's were taken from Slackware 7.1, which was used as the
base because they were so much smaller.  I have not looked at their
patches so I don't know how they compare to RedHat.

-mdf