Re: A small compact distro
Dom wrote: > So I know I'm not making it easy for myself here, but does anyone have any > suggestion on making, not necessarily a tiny distro, but making it using > minimal resources and being as small as possible. I've read the tips and > stuff, and I'll do them next time, but I would like more help, for example, > what base distro would be best, like small, but still has the requisites > required to build an LFS system I think what you're looking for is described in the small-lfs hint (http://home.versateladsl.be/beckers.p/joachim.beckers/en/files/small-lfs.txt). I compiled and updated this hint from two deprecated hints on the subject, so it should be fairly up to date. Take a look at it, and I you have any comments, feel free to let me know. Joachim -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
Re: A small compact distro
Dom wrote: > Got going, was all going well, and as I come to bunzip the > libc-headers in the temporary system (yes, which is extremely early > on in the process) and I ran out of space! Have you been deleting the package build directories? (Are those even on the same partition?) Are you building LFS on the same 4G partition as Slackware perhaps? signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
A small compact distro
Hello First, let me just brief you. I would like to build a Linux distro that can be run on a low powered laptop (233 MHz - 700 MHz.) But having no previous Linux distributions, I thought I had best try and build a "normal" one first. So I had a go. I created a virtual machine (using VMWare,) gave it 4gb space. Got slackware installed, copied across all the source archive things and then started. Got going, was all going well, and as I come to bunzip the libc-headers in the temporary system (yes, which is extremely early on in the process) and I ran out of space!! 4Gb!!! It didn't help with the fact I had to start again half way through (start from scratch, reformat) because GCC3.4.0 would compile, so I started again taking the GCC4 branch. So my theory is that it was because it was a virtual machine the GCC3.4 wouldn't compile (4 did fine btw) so I set up a second pc, with rubbish spec (Pentium 2 MMX 233 MHz) with a 2gig hard drive. So I know I'm not making it easy for myself here, but does anyone have any suggestion on making, not necessarily a tiny distro, but making it using minimal resources and being as small as possible. I've read the tips and stuff, and I'll do them next time, but I would like more help, for example, what base distro would be best, like small, but still has the requisites required to build an LFS system Thanks in advanced Dom. -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
