nixpkgs/boot
Armijn Hemel fe355bba78 replace a lot of tools we initially use with statically linked versions.
This reduces the ramdisk installer size with a few megabytes when gzipped,
but with about 40 MB when unpacked in memory.

There are a few improvements possible:

- strip the binaries. This saves another few MBs.
- only copy the binaries we really need to /bin or /sbin. This could reduce
the size of the installer a lot, especially with util-linux, of which we
don't use that many tools at all.
- try to move some packages we link with glibc right now (like util-linux) to
dietlibc. This will not work for bash, already tried that.
- try to use busybox as a replacement for everything.

svn path=/nixu/trunk/; revision=4428
2005-12-24 11:50:42 +00:00
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boot.sh mount /dev/pts, zo we've got PTYs (for screen) 2005-08-22 14:23:01 +00:00
builder.sh replace a lot of tools we initially use with statically linked versions. 2005-12-24 11:50:42 +00:00
default.nix replace a lot of tools we initially use with statically linked versions. 2005-12-24 11:50:42 +00:00
env.sh - various cleanups 2005-08-28 00:51:34 +00:00
halt.sh * Ignore failure to set up networking. 2004-07-16 15:41:47 +00:00
login.sh change root homedir to /root instead of /home/root 2005-08-21 23:15:24 +00:00