Re: Installing a minimal Debian SID on a 128 Mb USB drive / Compact flash
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> The annoying thing is that 128 mb of flash is enough to run Debian in,
> but due to an infelicity of debootstrap it is not enough to install it
> in. Debootstrap insists on retrieving the entire debian base system as
> debs, and only after it has them all on disk, all wasting space, does it
> unpack them. So you need 1.5 times the finished system size to install
> Debian. There are two ways to make this better, either make it download
> debs one at a time before unpacking them, or make it smarter so if it is
> installing from a file:/ uri, don't copy the debs over at all, just make
> symlinks.
Dear Joey,
A possibile solution would be to be able to create /tmpfs mounts when using
the new installer. If I have 128 Mb of flash and 128 Mb of memory, it would
be suitable, wouldn't it?
Cheers,
Jean-Michel
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