Re: Debian on a 128MB USB flash drive
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Stefan Monnier wrote: I know you said you want a plain Debian, but what about DSL ? http://www.damnsmalllinux.org/ My understanding is that DSL offers some things I don't need (like a desktop; I'm mostly interestd in this system as a kind of rescue drive) and fails to provide me with the ability to just update it with apt-get (I don't intend to *ever* reinstall this USB system, instead I'll just keep updating against testing, as I've done on all my other systems). DSL looks pretty neat, but seemed too much based on a LiveCD mindset, so I didn't investigate much further. Maybe it actually offers just what I wanted. DSL is desktop based, but it is _very_ small. I installed it to a celeron 600 w/ 64 MB ram and a 2.0 gig hard drive. It worked just fine. I am pretty sure you can get it working from a flash drive, providing of course that your BIOS lets you boot from it. Once it's installed it is a Debian system, and you can apt-get remove any of the software you don't want or need, including X. Keep in mind that the standard DSL comes with a 2.4 kernel. If you want a 2.6 kernel, you need the DSL-N. Joe - -- Registerd Linux user #443289 at http://counter.li.org/ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFF9CCjiXBCVWpc5J4RAq/lAJ0d+/IG3HuMM80b2Z1j/O2WElx/swCglsng 48xguxnL9iArtJm8JkiWVrs= =hwbY -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Debian on a 128MB USB flash drive
Stefan Monnier wrote: I wanted a live Debian system on my USB key. The Debian Live option is too static for my taste, I wanted a real live system, upgradable via apt-get etc... One option is to use a large enough USB drive and do a plain Debian install on it. But my USB drive is only 128MB so it was not possible. I may be missing something, I don't understand the original problem. From http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/ch02s05.html.en: 2.5. Memory and Disk Space Requirements You must have at least 32MB of memory and 110MB of hard disk space. That's a lot more than a few releases ago, but it still fits into your USB drive. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Debian on a 128MB USB flash drive
Stefan Monnier wrote: I wanted a live Debian system on my USB key. The Debian Live option is too static for my taste, I wanted a real live system, upgradable via apt-get etc... One option is to use a large enough USB drive and do a plain Debian install on it. But my USB drive is only 128MB so it was not possible. I saw someone on the web has done something like that using squashfs+unionfs and so you can do apt-get update and then to store the resulting state back on the drive, you do some kind of commit. I didn't want to go down that route, so instead I've used a plain normal Debian system, but using jffs2 as a file system, which has the advantage of being compressed and writable. The whole story can be found at http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/~monnier/gnu-linux/debian-live-usb Very interesting! You say that you have problems with apt-get. Have you tried aptitude at the command line? Does that have the same problems? -- Chris. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Debian on a 128MB USB flash drive
On 3/9/07, Stefan Monnier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I wanted a live Debian system on my USB key. The Debian Live option is too static for my taste, I wanted a real live system, upgradable via apt-get etc... One option is to use a large enough USB drive and do a plain Debian install on it. But my USB drive is only 128MB so it was not possible. I saw someone on the web has done something like that using squashfs+unionfs and so you can do apt-get update and then to store the resulting state back on the drive, you do some kind of commit. I didn't want to go down that route, so instead I've used a plain normal Debian system, but using jffs2 as a file system, which has the advantage of being compressed and writable. I know you said you want a plain Debian, but what about DSL ? http://www.damnsmalllinux.org/ regards, -- Guillermo Garron Linux IS user friendly... It's just selective about who its friends are. (Using FC6, CentOS4.4 and Ubuntu 6.06) http://feeds.feedburner.com/go2linux http://www.go2linux.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Debian on a 128MB USB flash drive
I know you said you want a plain Debian, but what about DSL ? http://www.damnsmalllinux.org/ My understanding is that DSL offers some things I don't need (like a desktop; I'm mostly interestd in this system as a kind of rescue drive) and fails to provide me with the ability to just update it with apt-get (I don't intend to *ever* reinstall this USB system, instead I'll just keep updating against testing, as I've done on all my other systems). DSL looks pretty neat, but seemed too much based on a LiveCD mindset, so I didn't investigate much further. Maybe it actually offers just what I wanted. Stefan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Debian on a 128MB USB flash drive
You say that you have problems with apt-get. Have you tried aptitude at the command line? No. Googling for jffs2 mmap apt seemed to indicate that it's not specific to apt-get, so I didn't even bother to try something else. Besides, I'm used to apt-get and not to aptitude, so I actually deinstalled aptitude. Stefan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
