BeagleBone for ALSA & jackd

[Grant]

>> I would like to build as minimal of a system as possible on a
>> BeagleBone.  I only need ALSA and jackd to work.  Would this work well
>> with busybox?  I'm very familiar with Gentoo but a system like this
>> would be set up entirely outside of the Gentoo framework?
>
> Busybox is "only" a reimplementation of many of the basic Linux
> utilities (shell, init, file manipulation programs, network
> administration programs, and much more). But it doesn't build an entire
> embedded Linux system. You'll have to look at "embedded Linux build
> systems" to achieve what you need. My favorite is Buildroot, but there
> are plenty of others: PTXdist, OpenEmbedded, Yocto, and more.

Thanks Thomas.  Would it work to:

# ROOT=/tmp/root emerge baselayout uclibc busybox

then copy /tmp/root to / on another disk, set up /boot on that disk,
and boot?  If not, would TinyCore fall into your category of embedded
Linux build systems?

- Grant