Douglas Tutty wrote:
On Sat, Oct 28, 2006 at 11:16:39PM +0800, Tim Post wrote:
I've been working on some very task specific Xen images based on Sarge,
and been playing with Oracle's 'Rasta' system to help make network pxe
pushes a little easier to tailor from a single root.
Unfortunately wh
On Sat, Oct 28, 2006 at 11:16:39PM +0800, Tim Post wrote:
>
> I've been working on some very task specific Xen images based on Sarge,
> and been playing with Oracle's 'Rasta' system to help make network pxe
> pushes a little easier to tailor from a single root.
>
> Unfortunately what I have mak
Andrei Popescu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> Douglas Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > For ancillary computer uses (e.g. a firewall), having an install option
> > that focuses on a small footprint would be usefull, eg. no man pages,
>
> AFAIK small regular debian packages include the man pages an
> GRML is great, but the point is that the link you provide is a plain
> sarge debootstrap install, which is not what Douglas is looking for
> because:
> 1) A debootstrap installation is meant to be on a single partition;
> 2) It would take about 110 MB (tested!).
>
> Unfortunately, with Sarge, t
scelejar wrote:
> On 10/26/06, Bruno Buys <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Douglas Tutty wrote:
> >
> > >Does anyone know of a project to make a micro-distribution of
debian for
> > >use on older hardware?
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> Look at grml [0]. It is apparently more "pure Debian" than other
live
> cds (there's
Douglas Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> For ancillary computer uses (e.g. a firewall), having an install option
> that focuses on a small footprint would be usefull, eg. no man pages,
> no documentation, etc since that's all on the main computer. This
> suggests a modified package installation
On 10/26/06, Bruno Buys <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Douglas Tutty wrote:
>Does anyone know of a project to make a micro-distribution of debian for
>use on older hardware? Eg 486, 32 MB, 100 MB. One problem with
>installing with Woody and upgrading is that the list of packages in Main
>is so hug
Douglas Tutty wrote:
>Does anyone know of a project to make a micro-distribution of debian for
>use on older hardware? Eg 486, 32 MB, 100 MB. One problem with
>installing with Woody and upgrading is that the list of packages in Main
>is so huge it takes up a good chunk of disk space (and memory
Douglas Tutty wrote:
Does anyone know of a project to make a micro-distribution of debian for
use on older hardware? Eg 486, 32 MB, 100 MB. One problem with
There is a LiveCD named DSL (D*mn Small Linux) which I occasionally run
on a machine with an AMD586 16MB RAM and essentially no hard dis
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