This might sound silly, but I installed virt-manager to make things a little easier when using qemu, then created a new virtual machine with debian 12 on it... then installed qemu on that.
The actual reason for this is to make github account separation a little easier...
If you get virt-manager set up properly, it definitely makes using qemu easier, though. I practically just had to tell it to make a new virtual machine using this iso with this much memory and this big of a hard drive, and it was right at the debian install screen. (Set it up with xfce...).
Main tricky parts were that I had to install libvirt first, make myself a member of the libvirt user group, enable the service, and install dnsmasq. Not great, but could've been worse...
Used debian on the virtual box just for a little variety. I like to keep my hand in on different distributions a bit.
But speaking of OS/1337, i really need to get crackin' on those open issues and start using the reworked scripts of yours so my old mess can get yeeted sooner than later...
Thanks again to @SweetAIBelle for extensive contributions to OS/1337, making the pipeline and scripts to reproduceably build OS/1337 images and it's parts more flexible and nifty.
I've been re-reconverting a lot of my "stuff" to the BSDs (Free, Open, Net). It's refreshing. The Linux every-tool-has-to-be-a-swiss-army-knife ethos is exhausting after a while. The relative simplicity and clean organization of *BSD (especially OpenBSD) re-affirms my fondness for UNIX-y things.
You might think there's not that much difference but, in many cases, I'd rather admin a BSD box. Try it, you'll see.
Also, NetBSD is soo lean, it has made my old Pentium III almost useful again. Even with 333Mhz and 128 MB of RAM 🙃
For a minimalist system that wants to be a successor to #tomsrtbt and #Floppinux there isn's anything smaller nor more efficient.
After all, I don't expect OS/1337 to be used as a "#Server" in lieu of @ubuntu / #UbuntuLTS or #Debian but instead want to use it as a clean foundation for other projects of mine in need of an #OS.
My quest is to see if something like #tomsrtbt can be done with modern versions of #Linux & #toybox.
I know #mkroot is meant to show a full #musl + toybox / linux system for each supported architecture without sacrificing features and drivers along the way whilst retaining readability and reproduceability.
@lupo the problem is that i already compress the hell out of stuff:
I literally chose #xz over #gzip and #lzma for both #kernel ans #initramdisk to get both as small as possible...
@SweetAIBelle@landley yeah, it's still somewhat broken but it's at least in a booting state where I could see how much #toybox and #dropbear I can squeeze into the rootfs.cpio.xz given the limitations and the fact that it competes with the Kernel [bzimage] for space...