for the libs you must check each command you have and provide the libs required for it

like this

ldd /bin/mount
libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0x4002b000)
/lib/ld-linux.so.2 => /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x40000000)

you need more utils in sbin


modprobe
rmmod
insmod
depmod
getty

DavidPhillips, the sh and mount links to busybox will work. BusyBox is a program that packs a lot of commands in one program. To use it, you symlink the command you want to use to BusyBox.

Check out BusyBox's web site: BusyBox . And here are the list of commands that it can handle: commands .

Ok, I did not know about busybox


nutshell,

The filesystem is not too big, you just need to compress it.

I could not download that one yet due to the slow connection I have here. And I am using a credit card for the phone charge, I have no iSP here.

Maybe I can receive it to my house and look at it using ssh. I will check it out when I can.

you can put about a 4MB filesystem on the floppy if you format it for higher density. as far as busybox goes, as long as you have the required libs, and the commands you need I guess it will be okay. Does it save space?

One major thing that saves space is to strip the libs.

I looked at busybox, I think it will take up more space than the commands you need for a root/boot disk. You may want to reconsider using it, unless you find that you need all those commands.

The rootfs3.gz i sent you, i didn't use busybox for that. I copied the original binaries. I STILL get the kernic not found, no init error! I have the right libraries ( stripped them already). With busybox i was able to fit everything on a single disk but if i use other binaries instead of busybox it was too big to fit on one disk with my 301kb kernel.

Any ideas for the init error?

So busybox saves space. I will have to try it when I get a chance

not sure why it won't boot. I did not check your root fs yet but it would be interesting to see what it will do with my kernel