busybox issue Was: peewee on floppy

[Adi Linden]

Hi,

I have a patch for busybox to make mount more compatible. But I haven't
applied it yet to the busybox package.

Busybox includes a shell now. It seems to be severly limited but is quite
ideal for simple things like an initrd. For an embedded system I would
install the 'real' ash shell and use the busybox shell.

I am trying to tune busybox and tinylogin for PeeWeeLinux sometime soon. I
am also thinking about creating a busybox centric initscripts package
(placed under minial). No promises when this happens.

If anyone has a working basic PeeWeeLinux busybox system and would like to
share the files it would make this task much easier :)

TTYL,
Adi

 

On Fri, 8 Dec 2000, Dean Brown wrote:

> Adi Linden wrote:
> > 
> > Hi Andu,
> > 
> <snip>
> > 
> > Absolutely. In addition it would be an idea to build a system using
> > busybox and tinylogin. Both are included with PeeWeeLinux but I haven't
> > had any hands on configuring a system with busybox and tinylogin using
> > PeeWeeLinux in a long time.
> 
> The mount command in busybox does not work properly with the current
> startup scripts. In particular, the -n option on mount is not
> implemented in busybox which causes the rc.init script to fail. You need
> to use the standalone mount to make things work.
> 
> There also seems to be an issue with lash beyond it's inability to
> handle if-then-else statements in scripts, but I haven't had the time to
> figure that out yet.
> 
> -- 
> Dean Brown
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