Richard A Downing wrote: > I'm really pleased with jhalfs. For a slow old box (200Mhz - 32mb) like this, it's ideal - add lots of swap, start 'nice' in the background, leave it thrashing for a week until the job's done. The next interesting job will be getting it from the nfs mounted partition to the 4G harddrive - I suspect a screwdriver job there if I can find a spare ide connector in my workstation.
Richard, For some reason your mail client isn't wrapping outgoing messages. It's not a problem for me when reading, only replies. Back to topic. I have built LFS and deleted unnecessary things for a relatively minimal system. I didn't try very hard, but I got it down to abut 200M pretty easily. You could do the same and just tar the files on the nfs partition and copy it over to a relatively small partition on the 4G drive. No screwdriver necessary. As a note, I normally deviate from LFS slightly in that I have a separate /boot partition. I generally don't bother to update grub on the system, but only have to copy the kernel and System.map to /boot and update /boot/grub/grub.conf. This makes recovery in the case of a boot problem much easier. -- Bruce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/alfs-discuss FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
