On 7 November 2012 04:13, Grant <emailgrant@gmail.com> wrote: > How small can the Debian ARM rootfs get? Are the packages listed with > "armel" in the Debian online package database compatible with ARM? A armel-squeeze base system made with debootstrap is 124200KB unpacked. You can reduce this to about 70M by removing the documentation, unused locales and the package database: see https://code.google.com/p/sim1/wiki/DebianRootfs#Save_space M