The root disk is currently too bloated, on pmac and chrp its already
too large to fit on a 1.44MB floppy.
looking at busybox there is plenty of bloat that can be removed, i was
able to bring /bin/busybox (current 0.61-1) down from 200792 bytes to
153088, a nearly 47k decrease.
i have attached the Config.h diff below, some removals will break
debootstrap, basename, dirname and yes are all i think will affect it,
base/dirname can be trivially replaced using a simple shell
substitution, yes can be replaced with:
smallyes()
{
while true ; do echo y ; done
}
i am attaching the .diff here so people can give thier comments on the
removals, so workarounds for anything i haven't considered can be
developed, or if absolutly necessary the utility added back.
these changes will however make busybox less pleasent to work with, i
do not consider this relevant to boot-floppies, they need to be small
not comfortable, for the busybox.deb this may or may not be
undesireable, if this is a concern then these changes should be
applied to a new busybox-bf package which would be used for
boot-floppies instead of the normal .deb.
if i don't hear anything in several days i will submit this patch as a
bugreport to busybox.
--- Config.h-deb.orig Sat Sep 1 23:23:36 2001
+++ Config.h-deb Sat Sep 1 23:51:39 2001
@@ -10,30 +10,30 @@
//#define BB_ADJTIMEX
#define BB_AR
//#define BB_ASH
-#define BB_BASENAME
+//#define BB_BASENAME
#define BB_CAT
#define BB_CHGRP
#define BB_CHMOD
#define BB_CHOWN
#define BB_CHROOT
-#define BB_CHVT
+//#define BB_CHVT
#define BB_CLEAR
//#define BB_CMP
#define BB_CP
//#define BB_CPIO
#define BB_CUT
-#define BB_DATE
+//#define BB_DATE
//#define BB_DC
#define BB_DD
//#define BB_DEALLOCVT
#define BB_DF
-#define BB_DIRNAME
+//#define BB_DIRNAME
#define BB_DMESG
//#define BB_DOS2UNIX
//#define BB_DPKG
//#define BB_DPKG_DEB
//#define BB_DUTMP
-#define BB_DU
+//#define BB_DU
//#define BB_DUMPKMAP
#define BB_ECHO
#define BB_ENV
@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@
//#define BB_FBSET
//#define BB_FDFLUSH
#define BB_FIND
-#define BB_FREE
+//#define BB_FREE
//#define BB_FREERAMDISK
//#define BB_FSCK_MINIX
//#define BB_GETOPT
@@ -53,7 +53,7 @@
//#define BB_HOSTID
//#define BB_HOSTNAME
//#define BB_HUSH
-#define BB_ID
+//#define BB_ID
//#define BB_IFCONFIG
#define BB_INIT
//#define BB_INSMOD
@@ -92,12 +92,12 @@
#define BB_POWEROFF
//#define BB_PRINTF
#define BB_PS
-#define BB_PWD
+//#define BB_PWD
//#define BB_RDATE
//#define BB_READLINK
#define BB_REBOOT
//#define BB_RENICE
-#define BB_RESET
+//#define BB_RESET
#define BB_RM
#define BB_RMDIR
//#define BB_RMMOD
@@ -115,30 +115,30 @@
#define BB_TAR
//#define BB_TEE
//#define BB_TEST
-#define BB_TELNET
+//#define BB_TELNET
//#define BB_TFTP
#define BB_TOUCH
#define BB_TR
//#define BB_TRACEROUTE
#define BB_TRUE_FALSE
-#define BB_TTY
+//#define BB_TTY
//#define BB_UNIX2DOS
//#define BB_UUENCODE
//#define BB_UUDECODE
#define BB_UMOUNT
-#define BB_UNIQ
+//#define BB_UNIQ
#define BB_UNAME
//#define BB_UPDATE
-#define BB_UPTIME
+//#define BB_UPTIME
//#define BB_USLEEP
-#define BB_VI
+//#define BB_VI
//#define BB_WATCHDOG
#define BB_WC
#define BB_WGET
#define BB_WHICH
#define BB_WHOAMI
-#define BB_XARGS
-#define BB_YES
+//#define BB_XARGS
+//#define BB_YES
// End of Applications List
//
//
@@ -194,7 +194,7 @@
#define BB_FEATURE_LS_TIMESTAMPS
//
// enable ls -p and -F
-#define BB_FEATURE_LS_FILETYPES
+//#define BB_FEATURE_LS_FILETYPES
//
// sort the file names
#define BB_FEATURE_LS_SORTFILES
@@ -206,13 +206,13 @@
#define BB_FEATURE_LS_FOLLOWLINKS
//
// Disable for a smaller (but less functional) ping
-#define BB_FEATURE_FANCY_PING
+//#define BB_FEATURE_FANCY_PING
//
// Make init use a simplified /etc/inittab file (recommended).
#define BB_FEATURE_USE_INITTAB
//
//Enable init being called as /linuxrc
-#define BB_FEATURE_LINUXRC
+//#define BB_FEATURE_LINUXRC
//
//Have init enable core dumping for child processes (for debugging only)
//#define BB_FEATURE_INIT_COREDUMPS
@@ -221,14 +221,14 @@
//#define BB_FEATURE_EXTRA_QUIET
//
// enable syslogd -R remotehost
-#define BB_FEATURE_REMOTE_LOG
+//#define BB_FEATURE_REMOTE_LOG
//
// enable syslogd -C
//#define BB_FEATURE_IPC_SYSLOG
//
//Disable for a simple tail implementation (2.34k vs 3k for the full one).
//Both provide 'tail -f', but this cuts out -c, -q, -s, and -v.
-#define BB_FEATURE_FANCY_TAIL
+//#define BB_FEATURE_FANCY_TAIL
//
// Enable support for loop devices in mount
#define BB_FEATURE_MOUNT_LOOP
@@ -249,16 +249,16 @@
#define BB_FEATURE_TAR_CREATE
//
// Enable support for "--exclude" and "-X" for excluding files
-#define BB_FEATURE_TAR_EXCLUDE
+//#define BB_FEATURE_TAR_EXCLUDE
//
// Enable support for tar -z option (currently only works for inflating)
#define BB_FEATURE_TAR_GZIP
//
// Enable reverse sort
-#define BB_FEATURE_SORT_REVERSE
+//#define BB_FEATURE_SORT_REVERSE
//
// Enable uniqe sort
-#define BB_FEATURE_SORT_UNIQUE
+//#define BB_FEATURE_SORT_UNIQUE
//
// Enable command line editing in the shell.
// Only relevant if a shell is enabled. On by default.
@@ -334,7 +334,7 @@
#define BB_FEATURE_INSTALLER
//
// Enable a nifty progress meter in wget (adds just under 2k)
-#define BB_FEATURE_WGET_STATUSBAR
+//#define BB_FEATURE_WGET_STATUSBAR
//
// Enable HTTP authentication in wget
#define BB_FEATURE_WGET_AUTHENTICATION
--
Ethan Benson
http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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