Re: removing unwanted packages

[Matthew H. Ray]

--- Costas Magos [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 Hi all,
 
 I have a woody running on a SPARCclassic. I want
 this machine to be a
 dedicated DNS server, meaning that only bind9
 package (and sshd) is
 actually wanted. Is there a way (or a tool) to
 remove everything I don't
 need without crippling the system? 

Take a look at the package list (dpkg -l) and remove
anything you don't want.  If it's essential for
running, apt will let you know via dependencies or big
warnings.  Generally there's really not much running
off of a fresh install with no options.  You could
probably ditch inetd and portmap unless you need them.
 deborphan will help you remove unnecessary libraries.
 I don't know of a canonical list of things to remove
though.

Matthew H. Ray

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Re: starting Linux through tftp

[Matthew H. Ray]

--- Regeci Zoltan Csaba [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
 Hello,
 
 is it possible to start Linux through a tftp server?
  I mean not the
 installation program, but the installed Linux
 itself?
 How can I create a tftp image and pass kernel
 arguments to it?
 
 Please tell me where can I find documentation on
 this.

You will want to look into the Linux Terminal Server
Project (www.ltsp.org) and read the Network Boot and
Exotic Root HOWTO
(http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Network-boot-HOWTO/index.html).
 I'm booting linux boxes with TFTP images on x86, but
I imagine it's gotta be possible for sparc.

Matthew H. Ray

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