![]() ![]() We select here the software packages we want to be in our embedded system “Port to run a getty (login prompt) on” to tty1 instead of ttyS0, in order to get a login prompt when booting your generated system! Generic serial port config (can be useful) ![]() System hostname : choose your system name My target architecture is an x86 system, optimized for Pentium (i686). On Debian/Ubuntu, this is done by installing packages such as :įirst of all, we need to download and setup Buildroot on our build machine. Prior to using it, you’ll have to install a development environment on your system (GCC compiler, Linux kernel headers, make tools etc). In this tutorial I have used a Ubuntu 10.04 system as my build machine. The only minimal system I have been able to install so far on a 128Meg disk is NetBSD ( ).īut there is a way to achieve such a thing : we will be using Buildroot in order to generate a very small (embedded) Linux system (targeted at a standard intel x86 computer) Have you ever tried to install a modern Linux distro onto a small capacity (usually 32 megs or even less) usb drive or compact flash card?Įven with a minimal install, such a distribution will not fit! Major Linux distros like Debian/Slackware/Arch/etc need a bare minimum of 300-400 megs of disk space. ![]()
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