Re: Stretch ARM installation RAM and Flash size
On Mon, Jan 14, 2019 at 07:26:52PM +0100, W. Martin Borgert wrote:
> We're working on an embedded system, which I'm just upgrading to buster.
> It eats ~ 180..190 MiB. We dpkg-exclude /usr/share/doc/ and some more,
> which are not needed there.
>
> Also, we use not the official Debian archive with its > 53000 binary
> packages, but a local mirror with only 450 packages. Otherwise apt
> collapses once in a while with our 128 MiB RAM.
>
> It is still Debian armel, only it's reduced and we add our own dozen
> of packages. debianforembeddedsystems/rules :—)
Yes if you do your own build you can make it smaller. Dumping
/usr/share/doc, man pages, locale files, and a few other things can save
a fair bit of space.
Still not yocto level of shrinking of course or alpine.
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Len Sorensen
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