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Skriven 2007-08-09 22:12:28 av Maurice Kinal (1:261/38.9)
Ärende: we have a winner
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Hey All!

Just in case anyone here is interested (apparently not but what the heck) some
headway was just made in the last minimalized x86_64 build and a test boot
passed albiet with a few remaining minor bugs.  Bottomline is it does work and
the few remaining bugs are nonfatal just annoying to at least me, who is fussy
about these sorts of things.  It'll get there.

Package list follows;

autoconf-2.61-20070809-x86_64.tgz
automake-1.10-20070809-x86_64.tgz
bash-3.2-20070809-x86_64.tgz
bin86-0.16.17-20070809-x86_64.tgz
binutils-2.17-20070809-x86_64.tgz
bison-2.3-20070809-x86_64.tgz
busybox-1.6.1-20070809-x86_64.tgz (networking and a few system utilities)
bzip2-1.0.4-20070809-x86_64.tgz
coreutils-6.9-20070809-x86_64.tgz
e2fsprogs-1.40.2-20070809-x86_64.tgz
file-4.21-20070809-x86_64.tgz
flex-2.5.33-20070809-x86_64.tgz
gawk-3.1.5-20070809-x86_64.tgz
gcc-4.2.1-20070809-x86_64.tgz (c compiler only)
gettext-0.16.1-20070809-x86_64.tgz (msgfmt only)
glibc-2.6.1-20070809-x86_64.tgz
grep-2.5.1a-20070809-x86_64.tgz
gzip-1.3.12-20070809-x86_64.tgz
kernel_headers-2.6.22-20070809-x86_64.tgz
libtool-1.5.22-20070809-x86_64.tgz
lilo-22.8-20070809-x86_64.tgz
m4-1.4.10-20070809-x86_64.tgz
make-3.81-20070809-x86_64.tgz
module-init-tools-3.2.2-20070809-x86_64.tgz
ncurses-5.6-20070809-x86_64.tgz
patch-2.5.9-20070809-x86_64.tgz
perl-5.8.8-20070809-x86_64.tgz
sed-4.1.5-20070809-x86_64.tgz
tar-1.18-20070809-x86_64.tgz
texinfo-4.8a-20070809-x86_64.tgz
udev-112-20070809-x86_64.tgz
zlib-1.2.3-20070809-x86_64.tgz

I needed to replace busybox's mdev with udev as mdev didn't properly load
firmware for a rt61 based wireless pci card.  Otherwise mdev did a fine job so
if not an issue then around 600k can be trimmed off by replacing udev with
mdev.  A i386 version of the above is in the works and unless the only other
tester doesn't require udev than it is likely to be exactly the same as above
except without udev.  The x86_64 version (bootable) is around 100M soaking wet
installed to an ext2 partition.  Offhand my best guess is the 32-bit version
would be roughly 80M.  Also I still need to add a few packages to my x86_64
version to handle framebuffer graphics, multimedia etc but that should only
around 40M or so and the above can be used to build it once a few dependencies
are taken care of.

Works much better than I thought it would and is a very good base for future
development minimaLinuxie speaking.  The best thing going, no doubt about it
... unless someone else can prove that it isn't.  Any takers on this challenge?

Life is good,
Maurice

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