[ale] Needed Tools

[hirsch at zapmedia.com (hirsch at zapmedia.com)]

James Kinney writes:
 > You will probably want to use "busybox" to supply many of the usual
 > command line suspects. 

Also, you will want to strip all your binaries.  5 MB is pretty
small-you might want to check out Tom's root-boot disk.  It's a 1
floppy distribution that has a lot in it.

I think this months Embedded Linux Journal has an article about
creating your own distribution and about using the new cramfs to make
small embedded filesystems.

--Michael
 > 
 > On Wed, 21 Feb 2001, Prabhu Kubendran wrote:
 > 
 > >    Hi all,
 > >         We are in the phase of creating our own stripped of linux to fit
 > > into a rom size of 5 mb. Now our linux size is 50 mb. we want to reduce
 > > the size of library and binaries. Is there any tool to do that ?.
 > > 
 > > Thanx,
 > > /prabu.
 > > 
 > 



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