On Thu, 2005-09-22 at 23:07 +1200, Nick Rout wrote: > On Thu, 2005-09-22 at 12:01 +0200, Sascha Lucas wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I'm thinking of a small footprint gentoo produced in this way: > > > > 1) install everything you need > > 2) note current system time > > 3) reboot and do all operations you need in this small gentoo > > 4) remount with noatime > > 5) find all files in the FS that have an atime before the system time you > > note in 2) > > 6) delete all files found in 5); they were not accessed, so we don't need > > them? > > > > What do you think about this? Does it have a chance to work? > > no > > what about stuff that doesn't run all the time? stuff that cro needs > etc? > > look at catalyst, it is the tool for building custom gentoo installs.
Or.. create your own embedded gentoo. I'm doing it. Currently it's ~30 MB with kernel (very big kernel which have not stripped) and SSH and dhcp. -- Ow Mun Heng Gentoo/Linux on DELL D600 1.4Ghz 1.5GB RAM 98% Microsoft(tm) Free!! Neuromancer 21:18:33 up 2:05, 6 users, load average: 1.41, 1.52, 1.25 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
