[aprssig] Small LINUX build

[Andrew Rich]

Actually my requirements are quite simple.

All I need is a JAVA enabled browser and printer support.

I did get PCLINUXOS to work, but only had 95 MB free

I put SLAX onto a memory sticka nd that worked out at about 250 MB.

The box originally came with debian etch, but ran out of disk space very 
quickly , because the home dir was built with only 23 MB.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Greg D." <ko6th_greg at hotmail.com>
To: "TAPR APRS Mailing List" <aprssig at lists.tapr.org>
Sent: Friday, March 14, 2008 12:47 PM
Subject: RE: [aprssig] Small LINUX build



Agreed, Scott.  I have installed a fairly complete version of SuSE Linux on 
a 512mb flash, with space left over, for use in an imbedded controller 
project at work.  Doing a regular install and leaving out the big things 
(X-windows, KDE/Gnome, and all the X-based stuff mainly) was easier than 
hunting down a small footprint Distro, since I've been using SuSE for many 
years.  There's still a lot of stuff I don't need (CUPS, and a bunch of 
other things), but it fit, so I stopped there.

I've seen Linux run completely from a floppy disk (but it didn't do much), 
and there are several distros that fit easily and run completely from a CD 
ROM, one in particular fits on the small "credit card" size 50mb disk.  I 
find they are particularly useful for recovering crashed Windows PCs...

Have fun,

Greg  KO6TH


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> Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2008 09:31:52 -0700
> From: scott at opentrac.org
> To: aprssig at lists.tapr.org
> Subject: Re: [aprssig] Small LINUX build
>
> Does 1GB even count as small?  I think I used a 32 MB flash card last
> time I loaded up a Soekris box (I forget the distro).  Didn't have any
> room for a development environment, but no shortage of space for services.
>
> Most of my Linux boxes used to have drives in the 200 MB range.  Just
> install Debian (or your own favorite distro) and take out the packages
> you don't need.  X is a big one to leave out if you don't need graphics.
>
> Scott
> N1VG
>
> Andrew Rich wrote:
>> Hello
>>
>> I have a HP thin client that has a 1GB flash drive and would like to run
>> LINUX on it.
>>
>> Anyone out there in ham radio land had expeience with small LINUX builds 
>> ?
>>
>> Puppy LINUX looks like a contender ?
>>
>> Cheers
>>
>> Andrew Vk4TEC
>>
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