> Dear all, > I am trying to build a Debian router using a mini-itx board, with a 128 Mb > USB > stick and some 128 Mb RAM. I only need a very few services including DHCP, > SSH, ROUTED, etc...
> I already read http://gate-bunker.p6.msu.ru/~berk/router.html but would like > a > more standard solution not based on custom packages but the main Debian ones, > compressed on file system. Hi Jean-Michel, The thing you mentioned does not have _a single_ custom debian package, only the standard ones. A few packages are recompiled from testing in order to use 2.6 kernels (procfs, e2fsprogs, module-init-tools, modutils), but they are standard debian as well. AFAIK, it is the only custom debian distribution that boots from flash and works from memory a-la-Cisco, and still can be directly upgraded from debian mirrors. I hate to boast, just humbly ask not to spread around wrong information about my project. BTW, why do you need a compressed file system if you have 128M flash and 128M memory? Debian base with man and info pages included is ~70Mb. Ssh and routed will add a couple of megabytes. Compression can only make your system less debian-compatible. Best regards, -- Vadim Berkgaut > 1) RW compressed FS > Basically, I would like to ease installation and maintenance using a > compressed FS. > Is there any "rw" compressed file system in the 2.6 Debian kernel ? > Have you tried to build custom kernels with http://squashfs.sourceforge.net ? > Are there similar projects to SquashFS included in the 2.6 kernel? > 2) Cloop based Debian distro > If SquashFS cannot be used, is there any Cloop based Debian distro for > installation on an USB key ? > Any help appreciated. > Best regards, > Jean-Michel -- Vadim
