[Rule-list] Re: small utility disk (cfdisk info)

James james at opencountry.org
Tue Mar 5 08:01:29 EET 2002


Want to get some of the used space back?  nano is a pico clone but made
for embeded systems.  If you want I can build it against 7.1 and send it
to you (static)

James


On Tue, 5 Mar 2002 00:30:45 -0500
Devon <devon at tuxfan.homeip.net> wrote:

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> On Monday 04 March 2002 03:16 am, Devon wrote:
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> > > Devon...will the 'cfdisk' binary out of a running system be of any
> > > help....I can attach it to an email if you wish...its only
> > > 52k....gordo
> >
> > Probably not. It needs to be statically linked. At present we don't
> > have room to include the c libraries it requires.
> 
> Hi Gordon,
> Because you asked.... ;)
> 
> The latest disk image includes cfdisk statically linked against uClibc.
> Statically linked and stripped it weighs in at 131k. Once the file
system
> is gzipped, it doesn't take up too much space. I also moved the scripts
> so that you don't mount your new root file system on top of them.
> 
> http://www.tuxfan.homeip.net:8080/rule/miniconda-V0.0.5.img
> 
> I thought a simple text editor would be nice to have as well. vi is
> great, but not for everyone. It can be intimidating to a newbie, for
> example. So, with that in mind, and the fact that I could now use 
> ncurses support within the uClibc library, I included 'pico' (The pine 
> mail editor)
> 
> I've tested both applications only minimally, but they appear to work as
> expected. Since I've never used cfdisk, I took the fact that it loaded
> and allowed me to create and write a partition table to mean that it
> worked properly.
> 
> I still have 101K available for future requests! ;)
> 
> Enjoy!
> 
> - -D
> 
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