On Wed, 27 Oct 2010 17:20:56 +0200 Samuel Thibault <sthibault@debian.org> wrote: > Indeed, installling Squeeze (without any task) via the network needs > 460MiB free on /, so you don't really have room for swap. Once the > .debs cleaned, you're still with 340MiB, while Lenny needed only 268MiB > for the same base system. You can't install Debian on a.g. a 512MiB > sheeva-plug unless disabling swap. Try Emdebian Grip and consider using multistrap to install so that the packages can be cleaned out before creating a tarball which is then unpacked onto the final system. Emdebian Grip packages are smaller than Debian ones but still binary compatible. http://www.emdebian.org/grip http://www.emdebian.org/multistrap Wherever storage space is the principle limitation, please look at using Embedded Debian rather than full sized Debian. > > Another interesting view of all this increase is through the filesystem: > > Lenny Squeeze Squeeze-Lenny > /lib/modules 57640 75428 17788 > /usr/share 81584 98344 16760 (notably +6M locales, +2M doc, If you want to trim that down, you should *definitely* use Emdebian where the packages themselves have this content already trimmed out. > The apt cache increase (~20MiB) is merely due to more packages available > (28000) Emdebian Grip also reduces the apt cache size because we simply have fewer packages - concentrating on the base system and things you're likely to want on devices like this. -- Neil Williams ============= http://www.data-freedom.org/ http://www.linux.codehelp.co.uk/ http://e-mail.is-not-s.ms/
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