Embedded Linux®: Hardware, Software, and Interfacing

Creating the root Filesystem

The Project Trailblazer engineers' decision to use the MontaVista compiled versions of the binary, library, and configuration files that are required in order for the kernel to execute init and bash was just the beginning. Many Linux programs aren't distributed singly; rather, they're grouped by functionality and distributed as a package. For example, the ls program doesn't exist as the ls package, nor does the ls source code exist on its own. The GNU developers bundled ls and other file utilities into the fileutils package, which contains chgrp, chmod, chown, cp, dd, df, dir, dircolors, du, install, ln, ls, mkdir, mkfifo, mknod, mv, rm, rmdir, touch, vdir, and sync. If you want only the ls program, you have to extract ...