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Armijn Hemel fe355bba78 replace a lot of tools we initially use with statically linked versions.

This reduces the ramdisk installer size with a few megabytes when gzipped,
but with about 40 MB when unpacked in memory.

There are a few improvements possible:

- strip the binaries. This saves another few MBs.
- only copy the binaries we really need to /bin or /sbin. This could reduce
the size of the installer a lot, especially with util-linux, of which we
don't use that many tools at all.
- try to move some packages we link with glibc right now (like util-linux) to
dietlibc. This will not work for bash, already tried that.
- try to use busybox as a replacement for everything.

svn path=/nixu/trunk/; revision=4428

2005-12-24 11:50:42 +00:00

boot

replace a lot of tools we initially use with statically linked versions.

2005-12-24 11:50:42 +00:00

init

touch an empty login.defs, needed for login

2005-12-12 14:45:46 +00:00

fill-disk.sh

replace a lot of tools we initially use with statically linked versions.

2005-12-24 11:50:42 +00:00

howto

small corrections to the installer