Re: Startup scripts: CUI Utils Episode I (The Prequel) ;-)

["Mukund" <betacomp@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

|offered.
|
|I have an iMac at my place...
|It is going for repairs and will be there for a week.
|
|In the meanwhile would like to have a machine from which I can
|download my mail and surf a bit.
|I have one such machine, but since its a SBC its restrictions are:
|1. 8Mb Disk Space
|2. 32Mb RAM
|3. Internal Modem
|4. Onboard ethernet
|5. PS/2 Keyboard and mouse
|
|For the same, I identified a set of utilities which I would require
|for working ,they are:
|1. Login
|2. System utils
|3. Email client (I am thinking of Mutt)
|4. WWW client (I am sold out on W3M with SSL)
|5. FTP client
|6. SSH client
|7. Shell (got Bash compiled and stripped down to 300Kb)
|8. Word processor (I am thinking of e3)
|9. SpreadSheet (I am thinking of sc)
|10. <any thing else you think I might need>


Are you not asking too much?

Any way with linux everything is possible.
Looking at you disk space, the latest distribution is out of question. The
libc of  RH6.2 is it self more than 4 mb. Linking all the binaries
statically is also rule out as that will not fit on 8 mb space.

Then the only option left out is muLinux. It is highly customizable and you
can add binaries to USR disk. It has gcc and X also.

You can make a boot disk from muLinux ( or load the kernel with loadlin) and
make another root+user disk with all the binaries you want. The root+usr can
be a file on hard disk which can be mounted as root with the help of loop
device.

Refer HowTo
1.Loop device.
2.Boot disk.

Regards,
Mukund Deshmukh
Beta Computronics Pvt. Ltd.
Web Site - www.betacomp.com