Tiny linux with busybox on HDD
 

Hello!

Where I can find guide, which will teach me how to build possibly smallest linux distribution with busybox on HDD. I have found:

http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/4395

But it is for floppy disk...

Bye!

i would just use microcore if the computer is networked, there are some tutorials on how to install it on a hard drive using GRUB. Otherwise i have no idea.

That article is from 2001, today it will be really hard, if not impossible, to get such a small system. But you can try Tinycore Linux, or its smaller brother Microcore (without GUI), or maybe the base flavor of Slitaz (also without GUI).

Edit: The Slitaz Scratchbook will show you how to make your own (really minimal) system.

Hello again. This tutorial is for livecd. I need something to be builded from scratch on my hdd.

EDIT: Wow! This looks just like guide "how to make your own Micro core Linux" but how to move it on hdd?

You can build it on your hdd and use any bootloader to boot it, you just need the kernel image and the initrd. It will boot into a minimal system that runs totaly in RAM.

Thank you, that guide is great, but is there any way to stop loading that system to RAM and just put the entire root file system on hd?

I am not sure, but it should work to copy the contents of the initrd to a partition and the give an option to the kernel like root=/dev/sda1 or something. Make sure that you choose a filesystem that is supported by your kernel, I think ext2 should work every time.