[lug] Re: Busybox

[Bear Giles]

Jani Averbach wrote:
> On 2003-10-21 15:51-0600, Bear Giles wrote:
> 
>>On a related note, I've found it tremendously useful to copy 
>>busybox, vi, gzip and a real tar into my initrd.  
> 
> I thought that you could compile busybox with vi, gzip and tar.
> 
> Are these versions some how too limited that you need a real one?

I remember the busybox 'tar' couldn't handle filenames longer than 
100 characters, so that's why I replaced it with the standard one. 
  I can't remember why I kept the standard versions of vi and gzip.

Bear