Re: minimal installation questions
On Sun, 19 Sep 2004 13:42:13 -0500, Pepper Orlando
<woodenbicycle@hotmail.com> wrote:
> Thank you for the suggestions, I will give it a try again this evening.
>
> I may still need some help fighting the dependancy issues. When I tired to
> remove some of the base packages (exim, etc) I ran into the same sort of
> problems that Michael did when trying to remove gcc-3.3-base.
>
masqmail can be used to substitute exim
> My goal is to get just enough installed to run Mozilla (without AA fonts,
> actually, not enough horsepower for that) and blackbox. I'm hoping that I
> can get it to fit into 128 MB. 64 would be a fun challenge, though.
>
> Later on I will try to battle a minimal perl install so I can run some of my
> favorite scripts and Perl/Tk apps. I have a felling it will be probably a
> still bigger challenge! :)
>
I've not followed the discussion, anyway i can give a couple of tips.
IMHO you should look at the embedded distros, they battle everyday
with the code bloat =) and perhaps you probably can use the cloop
(compressed device) like it's done with the live CD distros.
Andrea
P.S. http://www.damnsmalllinux.org it's a live Debian based CD and has
a lot of packages stuffed in 50 Mb...
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