Re: Starting a new Distribution

Chris Bainbridge wrote:

> Yup, people run gentoo on their xboxes. Only problem is the lack of memory. 
> It's not that bad though, the compile times are faster than my desktop. Since 
> it's x86 you can run distcc to speed things up if you have another linux box 
> lying around.
> 
> I'd recommend you take a look at gentoo. The ebuilds have all of the patches, 
> a 2.6.8.1 xbox kernel with lirc driver, and with catalyst and xbeboot it's 
> really easy to make bootable xbox CDs. 

What I really want is to have a setup where I just boot, setup the 
network and then just fire up x with a given programm. And an inetd 
running giving me telnet.

Nothing, _nothing_ else.
No crond, atd, syslogd, nothing. Not even more than one tty.

Next thing is, I want to have / mounted ro (!) the whole time and start 
with an empty /var of say 10 megs at every reboot.

So the user can write to /var it which will be wiped out every time they 
reboot.

I guess i have to have access to the fatx disk in this case because I 
will have to mount more loopback files (/, /var). (I certainly do not 
want to make /var a ramdrive)

Is it really feasible to strip down a gentoo install?
Or would building my own mini distribution be better in this case?

Ohh, and I forgot, I need a custom kernel (2.6 prefered, what about the 
status of the fatx driver, will it be fixed soon?)

kind regards Philip


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