On Tuesday 05 December 2006 07:10, Daniel de Kok wrote:
On Tue, December 5, 2006 2:57 pm, Oliver Schulze L. wrote:
I'm looking for info about installing centos 4.4 on an embedded platform, like wrap's pcengines or similar.
You will definitely need a modified kernel, because the WRAP seems to have a 486 CPU. Besides that it depends a lot on the size of the CompactFlash cards that you are planning to use. It is possible to make a fairly minimal CentOS installation by picking packages by hand, though IIRC a minimal system is around 100MB compressed.
The higher end (48xx) Soekris box is a 586, and CentOS installs fine (PXE booting is the easy route). I can't comment on the WRAP boxes, I haven't actually worked with one.
I think to actually get CentOS down that small there's a few RPMs you have to force remove. It makes upgrading anything a pain because you have to manually add and force packages for install as well.
With lower-end hardware it is usually easier to go with a custom Busybox setup. Busybox is small, and quite easy to set up.
I would second this. CentOS' dependencies are pretty complex and intermingled when you get to a small set of installed RPMs.