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Old 04-07-2012, 01:47 AM   #8
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Originally Posted by jmseight View Post
Hi,

Optware will need another 250MB. Also, the instruction is asking for another partition and seems to be working with kindle OS, not Debian.

Is there a package that I can download to get full set of commands (like vi, ps, etc) on the Debian install - and hopefully will not take 250MB?

Thanks,
James
You can just add the busybox commands from the main and/or diags partitions to the search path and use them. Or you can install another busybox. Those tend to be a lot smaller than the individual commands that they replace.

You can mount diags like this:

mount /dev/mmcblk0p2 /mnt/mmc

And then use commands in /mnt/mmc/bin ...

Busybox commands can be executed with named symlinks to busybox, using the command name as the first parameter, such as:

busybox dd if= ...

instead of

dd if= ...
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