Thanks Jack, I think that you have a great plan here and I will proceed along this method using Mandrake 9.0 or 9.1
I guess that 9.2 is almost ready to come out based upon the chatter in the group and I wish that the Mandrake team would have included an option in the install for the most basic install similar to what I was looking for although I just wanted to ad a few packages as I need them. But that is wishful thinking I guess. Thanks again, Lonnie --- Jack Coates <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 2003-02-24 at 22:05, Lonnie Cumberland wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I am working to put together a project and want to base it on the lattest > > Mandrake Linux so that as newer versions of your product come out the we > can > > upgrade the components easily. This will also help to promote Mandrake as > the > > base operating system. > > > > What I need to do is to have the smallest version of Mandrake that I can > put > > together. > > > > The basic features of mandrake that I need are: > > > > 1. Latest kernel > > 2. Latest Xfree86 > > 3. network/ppp support > > 4. base ext3 filesystem > > 5. NFS > > 6. XDMCP/XDM > > 7. simple csh shell. > > 8. rpm facilities > > > > The idea is that I need the absolute smallest possible distrabution of > > Mandrake that can cover these requirements. It would be optimum if we could > > keep the entire thing under 40MB for less if it is possible. I have > recently > > heard about a 2-DiskXwin that fits on 2 floppies but am not sure if that > would > > be a good starting point or not. > > > > I used to be very involved in LEAF and have a lot of respect for > micro-distributions; be aware that they are architecturally very > different and it's a hell of a lot of work that goes into making them > act like regular Linux. If your goal is a 40-80M install, stripping a > regular distribution down or Midori or Hard Hat are good directions. If > your goal is a 2-8M install, you need to be looking at LEAF, Peanut, &c. > These will use busybox, maybe a stripped down libc or ulibc or dietlibc, > syslinux instead of lilo, and some intense ash scripts. > > > I will be adding a few of my own applications and want to incorporate the > > DrakeX and HardDrake for the installation method. The user will then also > be > > allowed to add more of their own Mandrake application selections as needed. > > > > Can you please help me to locate such a variation on Mandrake or how it > might > > be done easily. > > > > I don't know about "easily" but the way I would do this is to install > the smallest system possible, then log in as root, rpm -qa | sort | > less, change VT's and log in as root, then begin to urpme [package]. > Every few minutes regenerate your rpm list, and use rpm -qli [package] > less if you're not sure what it does. > > This has the added benefit of teaching you a great deal. > -- > Jack Coates > Monkeynoodle: A Scientific Venture... > > > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com > __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Tax Center - forms, calculators, tips, more http://taxes.yahoo.com/
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