trinux-talk

[Trinux-talk] Busybox

[Duane <du...@ca...>]

I am contemplating using busybox 0.60.3 with the 0.80rc2 release.  Has 
anybody already done this?  If I understand the boot process correctly, all 
I have to do is replace the busybox in initrd.gz on the boot floppy.  Am I 
right?

Thanks,
Duane.

Re: [Trinux-talk] Busybox

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

> I am contemplating using busybox 0.60.3 with the 0.80rc2 release.  Has 
> anybody already done this?  If I understand the boot process correctly, all 
> I have to do is replace the busybox in initrd.gz on the boot floppy.  Am I 
> right?

Yes, that should work if you build busybox correctly. Although depending
on the system you compile it with, busybox might be linked against
glibc2.2 which might mess you up. I actaully did start testing it but ran
into problems, but this may have been due to the pre2.4.19 changes in
ramdisk. Were there some specific features of the latest busybox you
needed?

- mdf

Re: [Trinux-talk] Busybox

[Duane <du...@ca...>]

I have compiled busybox 0.60.3 on slackware 7.1 and replaced the busybox on 
one of my boot floppies with the 0.60.3 version.

My ls is now in color, when I type poweroff I get the same responses as if 
I had typed halt instead of the applet not found error (still does not 
power off the laptop I am testing on), and there appears to be no change in 
the du and df commands.

This is the first time I have done something like this, what should I be 
testing to see if the new busybox has a problem with trinux?

Thanks,
Duane.



At 02:20 PM 6/19/2002, you wrote:
>I am contemplating using busybox 0.60.3 with the 0.80rc2 release.  Has 
>anybody already done this?  If I understand the boot process correctly, 
>all I have to do is replace the busybox in initrd.gz on the boot 
>floppy.  Am I right?
>
>Thanks,
>Duane.
>
>
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