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Hi all,

I am building a minimal unleashed Puppy 4.00, and the documentation appears to be as sparse as my build

What are the minimum packages required either for a standard or barebones. The docs don't say what the difference actually is but:

On a barebones - I get a "Making the filesystem usable.... failed" message because grep isn't found in the busybox distribution package

If I build a standard it fails after login because bash isn't found - changing /etc/profile to SHELL=ASH then produces the same error as for barebones. Which is doubly odd because before that I don't get a "filesystem usable.. failed" message before changing to ASH.

What packages are the minimum requirements for a barebones build? Were can I get a full busybox with GREP without having to compile my own? I assume it must already exist in some package?

Interestingly, with the SHELL=BASH in standard I get a "login on pts/0" message before failure - any ideas what that means as well?

Cheers,

asp

Got it - being a muppet.

I hope to learn how to do what you were talking about, create a 'barebones' puppy. Would you outline which packages you used to make that work? It would be very helpful to have this resource in the future.

Thank you,
Solid

Hi Solid,

This doesn't work really anything like the UL docs suggest, so I wouldn't recommend this unless you have *lots* of time on your hands to figure it out!

It's taken me almost a 4 days to get it booting correctly networked. The key though is definitely building your own rootfsskeleton package for the UL ./createpuppy script to use.

Also, bear in mind, at the very least you will be manually hacking your:

Libraries - there are loads missing, and it is a trial and error process finding them
Kernel modules - as the script doesn't add the correct ones
Network card - as the script doesn't create any networking
Keyboard - as the script doesn't create the correct keymap file in /etc - boot hangs without it

..and that's just the stuff I can remember off the top of my head!

See this thread in "Cutting Edge": http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=31481

BTW - I'd also recommend building in VMWare - you will be doing *lots* of rebooting - and this makes it simpler!

asp