On Sunday 25 August 2002 17:04, Lonnie Cumberland wrote:
>What I need now is a small minimalist distribution of Mandrake that
>would have the latest supported kernel 2.4.x and latest Xfree 4.x
>windowing system. My project will be connecting to the internet as
>well via NFS and Samba along with not needing things like KDE nor
>GNOME and will be installing my own window manager.
>
>The trick to this is that although I will have either an ext2 or
>ext3 filesystem, I need the whole distribution to be initially
>small, something like under about 5 - 10 Meg if possible. I will
>be adding other packages as they are needed.
>
>I have come across a few other distributions on the Internet that
>claim to be able to offer a kernel and xwindows on only 2 floppy
>disks but would prefer to work with Mandrake if possible.
>
>does anyone have any ideas on how I can get this task accomplished
>easily with Mandrake?
I don't think that a stock Mandrake is up to this small of an
installation. If you select expert mode during the install,
then select none of the package groups, you will be asked if
you are trying to install a barren system, and if you tell the
installer to use the minimal package set, it still comes out
right near 100 MB. (I think it was 101, or there about...)
This minimal installation footprint does not include any
XFree86 packages, and doesn't even include urpmi and friends!
If memory serves, none of the network servers (NFS, SMB, etc>)
are inclused in the minimal footprint, either, so they would
have to be added in during individual package selection (next).
The installation proceeds to the individual package selection,
where one can (de-)select additional packages, but I don't know
if trimming things down to 10 MB is feasible with Mandrake.
Best regards!
-Chuck
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