Mr O wrote: > How many have experience with working systems taking up less > than 512MB or smaller for the full system?? After taking a nice > long liesurely ride with Larry and touching on the topic, I was > thinking it's something I'd like to do. My initial goals are to > only have a 256MB CF card with everything needed to boot the > system and start the needed services. (Samba, NFS, SSH, distcc) > >>From there the RAID array would handle dishing out the data and > a RAM disk if neccessary for faster response than the CF would > allow. Forgive me for any bad spellings or english since I'm > doing fine with my Fat Tire :)
If I remember right, the default install of Debian Woody didn't put much more than 512M onto the root file system. Install Woody and delete a few things. (-: You could probably use Gentoo and just stop before you've installed all the fun stuff. Trim down your $USE options to the minimum, too. That'ld probably be less than 512M (but I haven't checked). Using the cloop device (compressed loopback), you can probably get 600-700 Mb onto a 256 Mb drive. I'm assuming you're building a server, and you don't want X11, KDE or Gnome (though I have Gnome libraries on my firewall so I can run Ethereal there). (I've used systems with less than 0.25 Mb of disk space (floppies, no less), so I have no doubt it's doable.) -- Bob Miller K<bob> kbobsoft software consulting http://kbobsoft.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ EuG-LUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.efn.org/cgi-bin/listinfo/eug-lug
