Re: Debian based root fs

[Wouter Morgan <morgan@bluecube.co.za>]

Bao C. Ha wrote:
> Are you running some of the compressed file systems, i.e squashfs?
>   
Not at this moment, but plan to do that. Having a look a slind now.

> Bao
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> > Hi
> >
> > I'm in the process of building a Debian based root filesystem to be used
> > on a i386 processor. I did a lenny bootstrap and removed the following:
> > /usr/doc
> > /usr/info
> > /usr/man
> > /usr/share/doc
> > /usr/share/info
> > /usr/share/man
> > and also unused components in
> > /usr/share/locale
> > /usr/share/zoneinfo
> >
> > The problem is that it is still over 80MB in size. What other tricks do
> > some of you know of to get the system even smaller. Don't need anyting
> > special, just to run an in house developed binary as well as ssh and ppp.
> >
> > Any advice or a point in the right direction would be welcome.
> >
> > Regards
> > Wouter
> >
> >
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