Intro Every Linux professional write scripts. Someеimes light, linear. Sometimes complex script with functions and libs(yes, you can write your bash-library for use in other scripts). But some of the scripts need a configuration file to work. For instance, I wrote a script that builds the ubuntu image for pxe, and…

Intro PXE is a great solution for booting a diskless computer (or a computer without an OS installed). This method is often used for terminal stations and OS mass installation. Stock ubuntu (16.04) in pxe-mode can mount rootfs only from NFS. …

The basics of porting Originally, Buildroot offers a limited number of packages. It makes sense — there is everything you need, but any other packages can be added. To add a package, create 2 description files, an optional checksum file, and add a link to the package in the general package list. There are…

Intro Like I said earlier in previos articles, Buildroot is a great system for embedded Linux development. But sometimes strange things can happen. Once upon a workday, I got the following task: add printing system in firmware (Kraftway terminal Linux next generation). Ok, so I had to add cups + cups…

Introduction In my previous article ( Monitor linux) I wrote, what is this distro and how it works. Now i will write how to do it. It’s may be interesting for everyone, who want to study buildroot. Target goals The result we get from article is the following: Firmware (non-volatile image with restorable…

About This is small cross-platform linux-distro with zabbix server. It’s a simple way to deploy powerful monitoring system on ARM platfornms and x86_64. Work’s like a firmware (non-changeable systemd image with config files), have web-interface for system management like network settings, password and other. Who is this article for? System admins/engineers who need to fast deploy…

About In linux development, sometimes, we require to create interactive start/stops scripts. With System V init system it is quite simple, with Systemd the same task is a bit more complicated. But, anyway, Systemd has it’s own timers and they looks pretty good. Systemd-targets are, definetly, not an alternative to system…

In this section, I consider some of the customization capabilities that I needed. This is not a complete list of what buildroot offers, but they are quite working and do not require intervention in the files of buildroot itself. Using the EXTERNAL mechanism for customization In a previous article we considered a simple example of adding…

Introduction In this series of articles, I want to review the Buildroot build system and share my experience of customizing it. Here you will have practical experience in creating a small OS with a graphical interface and minimal functionality. First of all, do not confuse the build system and distribution. Buildroot…