Re: Debian on a 128MB USB flash drive

2007-03-11 Thread Marty
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 i

Re: Debian on a 128MB USB flash drive

2007-03-11 Thread Joe Hart
-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

Re: Debian on a 128MB USB flash drive

2007-03-10 Thread Stefan Monnier
> 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 de

Re: Debian on a 128MB USB flash drive

2007-03-10 Thread Stefan Monnier
> 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 w

Re: Debian on a 128MB USB flash drive

2007-03-10 Thread Guillermo Garron
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

Re: Debian on a 128MB USB flash drive

2007-03-10 Thread Chris Lale
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 i

Debian on a 128MB USB flash drive

2007-03-09 Thread Stefan Monnier
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