Step-by-step Buildroot/Busybox Root File System

UNDER CONSTRUCTION -- ACTIVE EDITING, PLEASE DON'T MAKE CHANGES

This tutorial is for Developers. It is written to work with the odroidu2-ubuntu or odroidu2-debian SD-Card images [is this specific enough?]

It is not for Android developers.

Introduction

Did you know you can easily make a very small custom-built Linux system? The key is to use the "Buildroot" package. This tutorial presents an example to get you started.

Prerequisites

You MUST have access to the serial console -- use the USB/Serial adapter [check actual Hardkernel name]

For this tutorial, you can use the provided kernel -- or build your own, see: Kernel Compiling

You need an SD-card reader

You need to be able to

A Linux host running a Debian-based distribution: Debian, Ubuntu, Mint, Knoppix, etc.

Overview

We are going to:

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