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[setup.sh](https://github.com/EN10/TinyBoxLinux/blob/main/setup.sh) - [crosscompile.sh](https://github.com/EN10/TinyBoxLinux/blob/main/CROSS_COMPILE.sh)\n* [Building a tiny Linux kernel](https://weeraman.com/building-a-tiny-linux-kernel) - [menuconfig](https://github.com/EN10/TinyBoxLinux/blob/main/tinymenuconfig.md) \n* [Networking from Gentoo Wiki](https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Custom_Initramfs#Networking) - [networking.sh](https://github.com/EN10/TinyBoxLinux/blob/main/networking.sh) - [find Wget deps](https://github.com/EN10/TinyBoxLinux/blob/main/lib/wget/wget-libs.sh)    \n* [Find Library Dependencies](https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/120015/how-to-find-out-the-dynamic-libraries-executables-loads-when-run) - [Wget, strace \u0026 Elinks](https://github.com/EN10/TinyBoxLinux/tree/main/lib)  \n* [Make a Bootable CD With ISOLINUX](https://wiki.syslinux.org/wiki/index.php?title=ISOLINUX) - [make isoimage](https://github.com/EN10/TinyBoxLinux/blob/main/make-isoimage.md)\n\n### Distro Files:\n\nThe TinyBox Linux Distro iso in `cd-root`:  \n* `image.iso` [3.56 MB](https://github.com/EN10/TinyBoxLinux/blob/main/cd-root/image.iso)  (Linux 6.12.101 \u0026 ToyBox 0.8.12)\n\nThe BusyBox Linux Distro has 2 (BusyBox OR ToyBox) main files in `bootfiles`:\n\n* [Linux Kernel](https://www.kernel.org) 6.13.11: `bzImage` [1.48 MB](https://github.com/EN10/TinyBoxLinux/blob/main/bootfiles/bzImage) (tinyconfig + networking)\n* [BusyBox](https://busybox.net) 1.37.0: `init.cpio.gz` [2.34 MB](https://github.com/EN10/TinyBoxLinux/blob/main/bootfiles/init.cpio.gz) (with networking)\n* [ToyBox](https://landley.net/toybox) 0.8.12 `initramfs.cpio.gz` [530 KB](https://github.com/EN10/TinyBoxLinux/blob/main/bootfiles/initramfs.cpio.gz)\n\n\n### Run on [QEMU](https://www.qemu.org):\nfrom `image.iso`\n```\n.\\qemu-system-x86_64.exe -cdrom image.iso\n```\nfrom `bzImage` and `init.cpio.gz`\n```\n.\\qemu-system-x86_64.exe -kernel bzImage -initrd init.cpio.gz\n```\nSpecify cores `-smp` and memory `-m`\n```\n.\\qemu-system-x86_64.exe -cdrom image.iso -smp 1 -m 512\n```\nWindows Terminal\n```\n.\\qemu-system-x86_64 -kernel .\\bzImage -initrd initramfs.cpio.gz -no-reboot -nographic -append \"console=ttyS0\"\n```\n### Simple Distro Setup\n* [Build defconfig Kernel \u0026 Busybox](https://github.com/EN10/TinyBoxLinux/blob/main/setup.sh)    \n`defconfig bzImage 12.8MB`\n### Add Networking:\n* [Build BusyBox with Networking](https://github.com/EN10/TinyBoxLinux/blob/main/networking.sh) - [Identify Wget dependencies](https://github.com/EN10/TinyBoxLinux/blob/main/lib/wget/wget-libs.sh)    \n`BusyBox init.cpio.gz 2.34 MB`\n* [Build tinyconfig Kernel with Networking](https://github.com/EN10/TinyBoxLinux/blob/main/tinymenuconfig.md)    \n`tinyconfig bzImage 2.68 MB`\n* [Install Elinks browser](https://github.com/EN10/TinyBoxLinux/blob/main/bootfiles/install-elinks.sh) - [Identify Elinks dependencies](https://github.com/EN10/TinyBoxLinux/blob/main/lib/elinks/elinks.sh)  \n`./install-elinks.sh`\n### Create bootable CD iso\n* [isolinux setup](https://github.com/EN10/TinyBoxLinux/blob/main/cd-root/isolinux.sh) - [BusyboxLinux.iso](https://github.com/EN10/TinyBoxLinux/blob/main/cd-root/BusyBoxLinux.iso) [TinyboxLinux.iso](https://github.com/EN10/TinyBoxLinux/blob/main/cd-root/TinyBoxLinux.iso)    \n`BusyBoxLinux.iso 5.45 MB`    `TinyBoxLinux.iso 3.61 MB`\n","project_url":"https://awesome.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/projects/github.com%2Fen10%2Ftinyboxlinux","html_url":"https://awesome.ecosyste.ms/projects/github.com%2Fen10%2Ftinyboxlinux","lists_url":"https://awesome.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/projects/github.com%2Fen10%2Ftinyboxlinux/lists"}