On Wed, January 12, 2005 11:40, Lode Vanstechelman said: > Hi, > > I wonder if there has already been a thread about this, but I would > like to build a very small (in disk-space terms) Gentoo Linux > distribution, to be used on 400 to 600 MB hard-disks. > > I would build the whole Gentoo system on another computer and leave it > there and then later on copy a 'subset' of that system to the small > computer. I would create the subset by copying the whole Gentoo system > and then deleting portage and distfiles and kernel sources etc. > > Said in another way: In a first stage I would build a whole new Gentoo > system on some big partition. In the second stage I would copy that > whole Gentoo system to another big partition. In that second Gentoo > system I would delete lots of stuff that I wouldn't need on the small > disks like gcc and stuff. Then in the final stage I would copy the > small linux to the small harddisk. > > I would keep the original version of the chroot Gentoo in case I need > to recompile something. Diskspace is not a problem on the big > partition. > > Now is my question: What would you guys advise me to delete to make > the system smaller? The system on the small disk would only have to > run iptables. > > Thanks, > > Lode > > -- > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list > >
I would do a stage1-install and set size-optimizations (see the GNU GCC-link in the Gentoo Handbook). Before doing 'emerge system', i would do emerge -Dpv system and with the help of that output remove some USE-flags and set them static in /etc/make.conf ( USE="-X -alsa -gtk etc etc" ). After 'emerge system' just do 'emerge -Dv iptables'. Then remove files in /usr/src/linux* , (*)/usr/portage/distfiles , (*)/usr/portage/packages/All and (*)/var/tmp/portage/* (*)=may vary depending on your settings in /etc/make.conf /©harlie -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
