On the busybox site, it says that busybox can act as a shell. so that means you don't need BASH or ASH or anything similar right? Because im making a small boot floppy and i want to fit as much on as i can so it would make sense to use busybox as a shell.

but i can't find any information on how to do this?

Can someone point me in the right direction please?

Thanks

Dom.

busybox normally works by being called by a number of different symlinks. if you symlin kbusybox to ls then it will runs as ls, symlink it to cat and it's replicate cat... so create a symlink to it called "ash" and set that as your shell.

http://www.busybox.net/downloads/BusyBox.html

You want to start busybox instead of bash. The place where bash is started varies from one distribution to another. It is usually done in a startup script in /etc. Look in /etc/inittab for the name of a runlevel script in /etc which is used to start the system. In that runlevel script you will find something that looks similar to:
/bin/bash --login

change that to something similar to:
/bin/busybox --login

It is possible that in a condensed system on a floppy that /bin/bash --login is started in /etc/inittab instead of a seperate script.


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Steve Stites

Well when i say im mking a boot disk, im making a custom distro. But i want the final thing to be small (50 - 100mb tops) but i think its pointless going through allt he work of LFS just to destroy it, so im going the other way and building it up from a boot floppy.

Thanks for the help guys.

Dom

50 to 100mb doesn't justify busybox really... 500kb to 1mb justifies that.

sorry, i meant 10mb-50mb i wanna put it on a miniCD or businessCD

Buut even still, every little counts, kb make mb.

And also, like i said, i lpan on making a book floppy first and then building it up, so in the first stages, its going to be 1.44mb tops...which i think justifies busybox

Dom