[Gllug] Small installation

[Rich Walker]

itsbruce at uklinux.net writes:

> On Tue, Jun 24, 2003 at 01:23:21PM +0100, Richard Jones wrote:
> > As for <120 MB ... you could be in for a hard time. I never had a full
> > Linux running in such a limited space even back in the original
> > Slackware-on-30-floppies days.
> 
> It's quite possible.  With Debian, the thing to do on set-up would be to
> go into dselect at the final choice and go through removing things,
> adding nothing.  Remove everything that isn't essential.  You can easily
> end up with a system that occupies less than 40MB.  

Stable or testing? I'm not sure I can envisage testing getting that
small, as /var/lib/dpkg/available is 10MB on the box I'm sitting at...

(Mind you, mounting /var remotely is looking better all the time - with
these HD it will probably be faster, as well...)

> Then make a careful
> list of those things you do need and use dselect to install them
> (dselect gives you more freedom to make choices to resolve depencies and
> suggested packages).

Fortuitously, my window manager is "X -query thoth -dpi 100".

> If you're really pushed for space you can even have ash instead of bash,
> which will save you a whole megabyte.

Then I won't tell you about my compulsion to actually have a runnable
emacs on every box in the building.


> The first time you try it, use one partition for the whole lot.  Have a
> look at how space is used before you try any more complex partitioning
> scheme.

I've done some horrible things with partitions in my time... I'll see
how this one goes.

cheers, Rich.

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