Quoting Sreekumar Kodakara (skodak at cs.umn.edu):
> hi,
> I am building an embedded system which runs on a disk on chip. I have made
> the disk on chip bootable. Now I want to install RPM so that I can install
> gcc and other packages. Is there a way to install RPM in this barebones
> linux system? (By making the disk on chip bootable I have transfered only
> the necesary system files to start and boot linux. gcc, RPM etc are not
> present in the system.I used RH Linux 6.2 for this installation)
> I see that in rpm.org the installation method given
> assumes that I have gcc installed in the system which is not the case.

Did you check out peewee linux?

They have a fairly decent jump-start framework for embedding redhat linux on
small devices
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