On Saturday 07 June 2003 22:25, Dan Armak wrote: > On Saturday 07 June 2003 21:04, Geoffrey S. Mendelson wrote: > > > Use custom installtion. Ditch stuff you don't need. > > > > Tried that. It's not granular enough. > > Gentoo is great for setting up a system on another box (in a chroot) and > then moving it over. It's extremely granular and if you compile with -Os > and don't install things you don't need (docs, .po's) and at the end remove > things you don't need anymore (kernel sources, include files, pieces of > gcc/binutils...) you can make a very very lean system.
In fact, looking at your orig specs, I see you've 1.6GB in there - an X terminal would fit there several times over. (A system with KDE and all takes under 1GB iirc.) So, you can dispense with removing include files and such. Makes everything even simpler - it'd be much the same as a std gentoo isntall process. > > Yes, there I go with Gentoo superlatives again :-) But granularity and > making very small/customized installations really is one of Gentoo's > greatest deployment strengths. -- Dan Armak Matan, Israel Public GPG key: http://cvs.gentoo.org/~danarmak/danarmak-gpg-public.key
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