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Re: how to make a small glibc 2 for boot disks
- To: glibc-linux@ricardo.ecn.wfu.edu
- Subject: Re: how to make a small glibc 2 for boot disks
- From: Jack Cummings <sauron@angband.ee.ualberta.ca>
- Date: Wed, 4 Aug 1999 18:33:59 -0600
- References: <37acc323.3234063@can-mail.tpg.com.au>
- Reply-To: glibc-linux@ricardo.ecn.wfu.edu
On Wed, Aug 04, 1999 at 10:50:28PM +0000, alterity wrote:
> I am working on a boot disk.
Take a look into asmutils, and busybox. Both provide compacted hany utils
at a much reduced size:
[jack@Needle:linux-2.2]$ ls -l
total 22
lrwxrwxrwx 1 jack jack 5 Jul 14 13:59 arch -> uname*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 jack jack 275 Jul 4 02:18 basename*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 jack jack 187 Jul 4 02:18 cat*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 jack jack 193 Jul 4 02:19 dmesg*
lrwxrwxrwx 1 jack jack 8 Jul 14 13:59 domainname -> hostname*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 jack jack 202 Jul 4 02:19 echo*
lrwxrwxrwx 1 jack jack 4 Jul 14 13:59 false -> true*
lrwxrwxrwx 1 jack jack 6 Jul 14 13:59 halt -> reboot*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 jack jack 214 Jul 4 02:19 hostname*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 jack jack 757 Jul 4 02:42 httpd*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 jack jack 603 Jul 4 02:20 kill*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 jack jack 251 Jul 4 02:21 lsmod*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 jack jack 164 Jul 4 02:21 mkdir*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 jack jack 161 Jul 4 02:21 mount*
lrwxrwxrwx 1 jack jack 6 Jul 14 13:59 poweroff -> reboot*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 jack jack 166 Jul 4 02:22 pwd*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 jack jack 177 Jul 4 02:22 reboot*
lrwxrwxrwx 1 jack jack 5 Jul 14 13:59 rmdir -> mkdir*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 jack jack 144 Jul 4 02:22 rmmod*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 jack jack 237 Jul 4 02:23 sleep*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 jack jack 259 Jul 4 02:23 softdog*
lrwxrwxrwx 1 jack jack 6 Jul 14 13:59 swapoff -> swapon*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 jack jack 159 Jul 4 02:23 swapon*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 jack jack 124 Jul 4 02:23 sync*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 jack jack 276 Jul 4 02:23 tee*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 jack jack 138 Jul 4 02:24 true*
lrwxrwxrwx 1 jack jack 5 Jul 14 13:59 umount -> mount*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 jack jack 309 Jul 4 02:24 uname*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 jack jack 205 Jul 4 02:24 update*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 jack jack 207 Jul 4 02:25 yes*
> Does anyone know how they do it?
Not off of the top my head. I assume they know out the lesser used bits.
--Jack
Thank goodness modern convenience is a thing of the remote future.
-- Pogo, by Walt Kelly
====-=-==== Jack (John) Cummings == cummings@nyquist.ee.ualberta.ca ====-=-====
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