Post by VooD VooDchange (I think). Btw a minimal Advmame linux distro would be nice for those
who want filesharing/hardware compability and speed. (in linux my usb pad
Really all you should need is:
-kernel
-init
-inittab
-fstab
-mount
-e2fsck
-advmame
for network setup:
-ifconfig
-route
to access the box remotely:
-smbd (and nmbd?)
some file manipulation tools:
-ls, cp, rm, etc. (probably can just use the busybox binary.. google it)
you can think of a few other toys you might want, but this is about all
you'd need. Once configured, you wouldn't need any of the fancy stuff
like shells, etc. you just set up your default runlevel to spawn advmame.
Build everything statically linked and you're good to go.. no worrying
about which libraries you need to copy.
If you guys really want something like this, I'm sure I can whip it up
given an hour of free time or so. As a disclaimer, I haven't toyed with
advancemame under linux since the box I was trying to bring up had all
sorts of newish proprietary chipsets, and the kernel support was lacking
(that's why I run the dos version sadly). And as far as binary
compatability goes, I'm not sure what the de facto standard is these days.
(is most code just built for i586? i386?). And lastly, you'd have to
supply your own advancemame build using LDFLAGS=-static or similar.
I still think all of this is available on AdvanceCD though.. you probably
only need to tweek the fstab to label the root device properly.
Sean