Re: new distribution
* Klaus Weidner (kw@w-m-p.com) wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 21, 2004 at 12:14:37PM -0800, trixter http://www.0xdecafbad.com=
> wrote:
> > Thanks, I will google for them shortly. I had looked at
> > pocketworkstation.org the 90M install was basically what I wanted to try
> > to trim, replacing some stuff with busybox, and remove gcc and all on
> > the base install and try to fit it into my iPAQ (48M storage, but the 2
> > banks are killing me on dividing it ...). The goal is to make a debian
> > distribution that will boot and all without the requirement of 1.
> > familiar as a base (even for installing) and 2. pure debian. =20
> >=20
> > This appears to be smewhat difficult but I think that a core image can
> > be shrunk enough and once you get in if you want/happen to have
> > removable media (sd/cf/etc) you can then mount that and all (this is a
> > particular problem with SD which you cant boot from and I dont like the
> > 'load familiar pivot_root' option.)
>
> I have strong doubts about this approach - once you start stripping it
> down it's definitely not "pure debian" anymore, so I don't see the point
> of doing it that way instead of using one of the existing "minimal"
> installations that are designed to run in flash ROMs of around that size.
I'd be inclined to agree here. That time you're taking to try to strip
it down is wasted. The OE/familiar/OZ folks have already taken care of
this for over 1,300 packages. I'd recommend either working with us, or
using stock debian. Admittedly, my opinion is biased, but I hate to see
people duplicating work for no good reason. If you don't like ipkg..
dpkg and apt and rpm are buildable with the system, and I expect would be
useful without an inordinate amount of work.
</shameless promotion> ;)
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Linux Software Systems Engineer - clarson at ti dot com
OpenZaurus Project Maintainer - http://openzaurus.org/
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