+++ Kalle Vahlman [2012-02-21 11:06 +0200]:
2012/2/21 Amit Kucheria amit.kucheria@linaro.org
Well minimal is all I care... not buildroot. But I would expect it to be < 20M in size. Does that make sense.... or am i speaking gibberish :-) ?
Doesn't the nano flavour take care of this?
Nano rootfs is 33M compressed tarball which expands to 95M.
That's "small", not "embedded" ;)
quite. You can get a debian-based distro down to about 56MB uncompressed: http://www.emdebian.org/grip/index.html (using the grip bloat-removal tools), or 90Mb without (corresponds to 'nano').
To go smaller you need to scrap the upgradable-in-place aspect.
In the past we made emdebian crush which around 20Mb, using a busybox base and a great deal of package modification. So it is possible to make a debian-based image this small, but it is not a sustainable thing without changes in Debian/Ubuntu to support a busybox base. Nobody is really working on this because there are so many other ways to achieve an image of this size which, frankly, make more sense.
Wookey