Re: Squeeze can't fit on 512MiB

[Tony Godshall <togo@of.net>]

>> > Indeed, installling Squeeze (without any task) needs 460MiB
>>
>> If you want to trim that down, you should *definitely* use Emdebian
>> where the packages themselves have this content already trimmed out.
>
> Or, for a less drastic solution, use localepurge.  Losing the docs is a
> significant loss, you don't want to suffer that unless your machine is a
> really small dinky gadget.  This is a part of the damage Nokia inflicted on
> n900 even though it would be a tiny part of that 32GB disk.
...

I've had good luck installing into larger storage, like a 2GB CF, and
then making a squashfs and loopmount of /usr, getting it down to a
reasonable installed size < 512MB, and then cloning that (with rsync
or tar) into the target 512MB CF.

Haven't tried that in squeeze though.

Tony