On Wed, 2005-01-26 at 19:04, Nick Rout wrote: > On Wed, 2005-01-26 at 15:24 +0800, Ow Mun Heng wrote: > > On Wed, 2005-01-26 at 14:12, Heinz Sporn wrote: > > > Even Gentoo can be reasonably shrinked. How "small" would you like it to > > 80MB is nice enough. The box will still have an internal HD. (large > > capacity one too since min nowadays is 40GB) > > > > Do you have a link to your product or ...?? > > http://www.gentoo.org is the link you are searching for :-) > > seriously though, install gentoo, just the bits you need. Then start > paring it down.
A stage 2 install itself is already 40MB. Stage 3 is 80MB > you should look at the catalyst system which is used for building > releases, including livcd's. There are various .spec files about in the > documentation, and you get examples when you emerge catalyst with > USE=doc. The spec files for building the minimal live cd has examples of > what can be deleted and removed. I've looked at catalyst, but not actually played with it _yet_. I've also found another called GNAP. ANyone can tell me what it is or how it can be used? It looks to be neat. Using uclibc makes the stage2 is only at 17MB. -- Ow Mun Heng Gentoo/Linux on DELL D600 1.4Ghz 98% Microsoft(tm) Free!! Neuromancer 11:37:40 up 1:46, 5 users, load average: 0.35, 0.31, 0.37 -- [email protected] mailing list
