[Rule-list] Potential low mem boot disk/installer

[Devon]

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On Sunday 03 March 2002 01:57 pm, Gordon Buzowetsky wrote:

> Would it be possible to include 'cfdisk' if room permits.  I feel it is
> a far more 'user friendly' format than 'fdisk' and for a newer user
> easier to navigate than 'fdisk'.   Just my 2 cents....thanks...Gord

I'll have to look at it, but my first guess is that we don't have the 
room for it. It doesn't get built when compiling against uClibc. I'd have 
to compile ncurses against uClibc before I can even try building it.
I'll have to see how big cfdisk is when complied against glibc.

For an idea as to the size differences we're talking about...
Busybox, statically linked against glibc:

$ ls -al /sbin/busybox
- -rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root       840296 Feb 28 23:20 /sbin/busybox
$ file /sbin/busybox
/sbin/busybox: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1, 
statically linked, stripped

Statically linked against uClibc:

$ ls -al distro_boot/busybox-0.60.2/busybox
- -rwxrwxr-x    1 mfratoni mfratoni   254528 Mar  2 22:56 
distro_boot/busybox-0.60.2/busybox
$ file distro_boot/busybox-0.60.2/busybox
distro_boot/busybox-0.60.2/busybox: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 
80386, version 1, statically linked, stripped

For a net savings of ~572k. 

I'm rather fond of uClibc... I wonder what it'll break? ;)

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