This brief document tells how the software on the web camera server floppy disk can be compiled.
First, the file system on the floppy disk is FAT. The directory listing should look as follows. You may follow the hyperlinks in order to download the files or to obtain the build instructions.
ldlinux sys 8204 2004-08-08 16:23 ldlinux.sys SYSLINUX 2.10 loader syslinux cfg 91 2004-08-08 16:23 syslinux.cfg SYSLINUX configuration file linux 532570 2004-08-08 16:23 linux Linux 2.4.26 kernel image (installation) ssh <DIR> 2004-08-08 23:07 ssh OpenSSH private and public keys and database of known host keys (installation) initrd gz 830946 2004-08-08 16:23 initrd.gz Initial RAM disk image (installation) init txt 678 2004-08-08 16:29 init.txt Initialization commands (Bourne shell script)
Assuming that the files listed above are available at
files/, the boot disk can be prepared with the following
commands:
mformat -r 1 a: syslinux /dev/fd0 mcopy -b files/* a:
On Debian GNU/Linux, this requires that the packages
mtools and syslinux have been installed.
The executable files can be compiled on a Debian GNU/Linux i386 system with uclibc-toolchain 0.9.26-4 (gcc 3.3.4) as described below.
Please note that in the instructions below, the path name
files/ refers to the FAT file system of the floppy disk.
cp kernel-source-2.4.26.config /path/to/linux/.config make -C /path/to/linux bzImage cp /path/to/linux/arch/i386/boot/bzImage files/linux
The RAM disk image contains the initial root file system. It can
be generated in ext2 format as follows.
dd if=/dev/zero ibs=1024 count=2048 of=files/initrd /sbin/mke2fs files/initrd /sbin/tune2fs -c 0 -i 0 files/initrd # mount && copy the libraries and files && umount gzip -9 files/initrd
The build instructions for the libraries and files on
initrd.gz are given below. Please note below that file
names starting with /initrd/ should be copied to the RAM
disk image.
cp busybox-1.00-pre10.config /path/to/busybox-1.00-pre10/.config make -C /path/to/busybox-1.00-pre10 CC=i386-uclibc-linux-gcc cp busybox-1.00-pre10/busybox /initrd/sbin/busybox
CC=i386-uclibc-linux-gcc perl ./config --prefix=/usr/i386-uclibc-linux
make CC=i386-uclibc-linux-gcc install INSTALL_PREFIX=/var/tmp
# copy {/var/tmp,}/usr/i386-uclibc-linux/{lib,include}
# (no need to copy shared files or binaries)
# apt-get source openssh
CC=i386-uclibc-linux-gcc ./configure --prefix=/usr/i386-uclibc-linux \
--without-tcp-wrappers --without-skey --without-pam --without-rand-helper \
--without-kerberos --without-xauth
make
# cp ssh /initrd/usr/bin
# cp /usr/i386-uclibc-linux/lib/lib{crypt,util}*so* \
# /initrd/usr/i386-uclibc-linux/lib
make CC=i386-uclibc-linux-gcc CFLAGS='-O3 -fomit-frame-pointer -ffast-math' # cp sender /initrd/usr/bin
mkdir files/ssh cp $HOME/.ssh/known_hosts files/ssh/known_ho.sts cp $HOME/.ssh/id_dsa $HOME/.ssh/id_dsa.pub files/ssh/
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