Difference between revisions of "Busybox"

Latest revision as of 10:51, 11 June 2010

BusyBox: The Swiss Army Knife of Embedded Linux. BusyBox combines tiny versions of many common UNIX utilities into a single small executable. It provides replacements for most of the utilities you usually find in GNU fileutils, shellutils, etc.

Change default Armadeus configuration

$ make busybox-menuconfig

$ make busybox-clean
...
$ make busybox
...
$ make

• To test it if you don't want to reflash whole rootfs:

$ make shell_env
$ source ./armadeus_env.sh
$ cp $ARMADEUS_ROOTFS_DIR/busybox /tftpboot/

BIOS> run nfsboot
....
# mount -t jffs2 /dev/mtdblock4 /mnt/flash/
# tftp -g -r busybox -l /mnt/flash/bin/busybox 192.168.0.2
# umount /mnt/flash
# reboot

Links

• http://www.busybox.net/about.html