Sunday, June 28, 2009

Emdebian rootfs for Emdebian Crush

The root filesystem is a basic set of packages needed to provide a usable login environment around a kernel and kernel modules. The rootfs must be extensible to a full system so normal packaging tools need to be supported. See also Emdebian website.

The main Debian root filesystem is based on 'Essential' - a collection of packages that contain: Essential: yes in debian/control and although small in Debian terms, it is still much too large for Emdebian.

This page concentrates on how to use the emdebian-rootfs package to build an Emdebian root filesystem for your device and describes how to customize your package set for your needs.


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