From: Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Making a init thingy. Step two I guess.
Date: Sun, 18 Sep 2011 01:00:45 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110918010045.35c6a6c5@rohan.example.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAK2H+edXRpwJ491aoosZkpAKJG-EPj4hSkC1rsMALka7G_yY9A@mail.gmail.com>
On Sat, 17 Sep 2011 13:27:45 -0700
Mark Knecht <markknecht@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Then I get confused. I get to Applications and I'm sort of lost
> > here. In there it talks about copying nano and its friends over to
> > the init directory. Then below that it says to use busybox. Well,
> > which is it? Do I do both of those or just one?
> >
>
> It's been a while for me but I believe it's both. I think busybox is
> the thing that gives you command line tools like cd, ls, pwd, etc.
> However you also can include applications in your initramfs that give
> you more access to the hardware or the net.
True.
Busybox is a tiny userland implementing most of the common options for
most of the common Unix commands. When you log into your ADSL
router/modem and get a shell, it's probably busybox running there,
not GNU util-linux stuff.
Binary distros often put busybox in their initrds as it doubles up as a
rescue environment and busybox is many times smaller than the full GNU
stuff. It's up to you if you want to do that or not; if all you use an
initrd for is a convenient place to store drivers to be able to
mount /usr, then you will have no need for busybox in it.
--
Alan McKinnnon
alan.mckinnon@gmail.com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-09-17 23:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-09-17 20:02 [gentoo-user] Making a init thingy. Step two I guess Dale
2011-09-17 20:27 ` Mark Knecht
2011-09-17 20:44 ` Dale
2011-09-17 20:51 ` Michael Mol
2011-09-17 20:56 ` Mark Knecht
2011-09-17 21:17 ` Dale
2011-09-17 21:32 ` Mark Knecht
2011-09-17 22:27 ` Dale
2011-09-17 22:45 ` Michael Mol
2011-09-18 2:13 ` Dale
2011-09-18 2:20 ` Michael Mol
2011-09-18 3:56 ` Pandu Poluan
2011-09-18 15:16 ` Mark Knecht
2011-09-17 22:48 ` Mark Knecht
2011-09-17 20:54 ` Mark Knecht
2011-09-17 21:11 ` Dale
2011-09-17 21:12 ` pk
2011-09-17 23:00 ` Alan McKinnon [this message]
2011-09-18 2:15 ` Dale
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