Hi, 948MB???? I would say that's an excellent reason not to use Redhat if one need one. I would put an estimated guess that a minimal Debian + Asterisk would take about 60 MB or so (and Knoppix is losely based on Debian) using a standard installation stripped of everything unnecessary (including development libraries, compilers etc.).
Another alternative is to do what I do for my "embedded asterisk" project - compile everything from scratch. Using that approach I am currently at 5.5 MB for the root filesystem, 600 kB for the kernel and around 400 kB for initrd - in other words - less than 7 MB all in all (meaning it will fit into a small flash). -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of JR Richardson Sent: 31 October 2003 09:32 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Asterisk-Users] Absolute Minimum Installation Packages I'm trying to get the total Linux/* installation size as small as possible. I'm wondering if anyone has looked at the installed packages list from the Redhat installation [rpm -qa] and has parsed out all packages not needed for * to run. I follow the custom install guide from Andy Powell but the installation yields 948+ Meg with 340 installed packages. I'm sure most of those packages can be eliminated. If the installation can be reduced to below, say 600 Meg, then there's an opportunity to harden * into a KNOPPIX Customization. BTW, has anyone already tried to produce a KNOPPIX * Customization? Thanks in advance. JR _______________________________________________ Asterisk-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
