Hello, but if I am correct and as I talked to someone on the list a VERY long time ago, the size of that minimal Mandrake install was in the neighborhood of 150Meg which is still to large for what I am trying to do.
>From what I remember, that also loaded up many extra rpm's that I did not want as well because they would not be used. What about the Mandrake installer? >From the times that I have installed Mandrake, it used an xserver for a graphical install over the network, for example, which loaded the second stage stuff and began the install program. What would be required to get have that as a minimal install and the Xserver it uses. That seems to fit on a few disks? Maybe that could be a good begining point. cheers, Lonnie > Lonnie Cumberland wrote: > >>Hello All, >> >>I have recently come across an old project in my travels >>called "Xdenu" that is a very minimal distro which provides the >>Linux kernel and an Xserver along with the simplest window >>manager and >>almost no applications. >> >>What is even better is that the whole distro fits onto, and can >>be booted from, 2 floppy disks. >> >>I have a very real need to be able to have a minimal distro of >>Mandrake which has the 2.4.x kernel and also the Xfree86 4.0 in >>the same manner as that old Xdenu and I will add the other >>support >>applications that I need later. Even 3 disks would be ok for my >>project, but I just need the absolute smallext Mandrake distro >>that can support the newer kernel and Xfree86. >> >>Could someone please tell me if this could be done with Mandrake >>and what I might need to do in order to get started. >> >>all help would be GREATLY appreciated. >>Thanks, >>Lonnie >> >> >> >> >>-------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- >> >>Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? >>Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com >> > Well, there is a minimal size install. Add what you need to run > X and see what size it takes. Most probably you can fit it on a > Pen Drive. > > Civileme -- Lonnie Cumberland
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