Tor-ramdisk from Scratch

This is how to build the tor-ramdisk image from scratch. It is meant as an approximate overview of the procedure so one has an understanding of its internals. It is not meant as an exact guide. Some items to keep in mind when comparing with the release images are:

  • The versions of busybox, tor and the kernel may not match he current version. See the change log for details.
  • This Documentation was tested in a virtualized environment, in particular VMWare.
  • The kernel configuration must accommodate a variety of NIC chipsets, not just the AMD PCNet 32 which is available in VMWare.

I've also written an ash script which does approximately these steps, so if you need to repeatedly rebuild, you don't get tired typing. It is a bit sloppy, but functional. You can get it from the download site, here.

Let's begin...