First off I need to create directories for the kernel's virtual filesystems (/proc, /dev, /sys) on my filesystem and also some initial device nodes (/dev/console and /dev/null). To find out the major/minor numbers for certain devices, check Documentation/devices.txt in the kernel source tree.
Entries in /dev need to be created so we can mount the virtual filesystems required, this can be achieved by creating a bind mount from my host system. Once we have this, the virtual filesystems /dev/pts, /dev/shm, /proc, and /sys can be mounted.
The install of the system now needs to happen within a chroot environment on the filesystem I have created which contains all the tools that were installed in a previous entry. A directory structure based on Filesystem Hierachy Standard (FHS) is created into which software will be installed.
As there are some hardwired paths for certain basic utilities in some programs, symlinks in /bin are created to point to our pre-built toolchain.
A basic /etc/passwd and /etc/group is created.
Some programs require log files to have already been created before they try to write to them (such as agetty, login), therefore we need we need to create log files such as /var/log/lastlog, /var/log/btmp, /var/log/wtmp.
The kernel headers are extracted for use by userspace programs and in particular glibc when it is built.
The following packages are installed (watch out for programs shipped as part of multiple packages)
man pages (not sure why first, check??)
glibc (configure timezone and setup /etc/ld.so.conf, gcc was also modified to ensure that no references to /tools exists)
zlib
file
binutils
gmp
mpfr
mpc
gcc (rebuilt so it now refers to installed glibc)
sed
bzip2
pkg-config
ncurses
util-linux
ps-misc
procps-ng
e2fsprogs
shadow (I installed cracklib and enabled support in shadow)
coreutils
iana-etc
m4
bison
grep
readline
bash
libtool
gdbm
inetutils
perl
autoconf
automake
diffutils
gawk
findutils
flex
gettext
groff
xz
grub
less
gzip
iproute2
kbd
kmod
libpipeline
make
man-DB
patch
sysklogd
sysvinit
tar
texinfo
systemd(udev)
vim
Some of these packages took quite some time to compile on my host system.
I ran into a problem when compiling glibc, it seemed to cause gnome-terminal to segfault (once this build is complete I will have to see if I can reproduce the problem and find out what is going on).
