If you want a reasonable approximation to a headless, but otherwise
full Debian installation, your best bet would be to buy a 2GB USB2.0
flash drive. 32 MB isn't going to cut it. Crucial sells their
"Gizmo! jr" 2 GB drive[1] for US$15. It's "about half the size of a
stick of gum". (A bit pricey for only 2 GB; they sell a 4 GB drive
for less than that, but it is a more conventional "thumb-drive" size.
However, if physical size matters, the "Gizmo! jr" is the smallest
I've found.)
I've got an NSLU2 ("slug") with 32 MB RAM and 8 MB of flash doing duty
as an NTP server. It has a "Gizmo! jr" drive as it's only mass
storage. Works a treat.
When using flash for a general purpose file system, you need to be
careful about minimizing writes. See the debian-arm list archives for
details.
Enjoy!
Rick
[1] http://www.crucial.com/store/partspecs.aspx?IMODULE=CT2GBUFDJNR000
On Mar 26, 2010, at 12:46 PM, VR wrote:
On 3/26/2010 12:09 PM, VR wrote:
Hello,
I'm poking at a Wyse 3150SE and have the 180 MB netinst booting
from USB
but would ideally want the operating system inside this unit
instead of
attaching a permanent USB flash for storage.
I'm wondering if anyone lurking here has successfully gotten Debian
to
install into less than 32 MB of disk space? Or if it's possible?
Also important to note; I'm not planning to do GUI based stuff -
ever. I'm trying to create a small footprint console services based
device like a DHCP server or print server or SSH server... stuff
like that. I've got a few of these devices I can reuse so I'll
probably only do a single service per unit.
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