Re: A small compact distro

2005-09-14 Thread Joachim Beckers
Dom wrote: So I know I'm not making it easy for myself here, but does anyone have any suggestion on making, not necessarily a tiny distro, but making it using minimal resources and being as small as possible. I've read the tips and stuff, and I'll do them next time, but I would like more help,

A small compact distro

2005-09-13 Thread Dom
Hello First, let me just brief you. I would like to build a Linux distro that can be run on a low powered laptop (233 MHz - 700 MHz.) But having no previous Linux distributions, I thought I had best try and build a normal one first. So I had a go. I created a virtual machine (using VMWare,) gave

Re: A small compact distro

2005-09-13 Thread Bryan Kadzban
Dom wrote: Got going, was all going well, and as I come to bunzip the libc-headers in the temporary system (yes, which is extremely early on in the process) and I ran out of space! Have you been deleting the package build directories? (Are those even on the same partition?) Are you building