Re: How I can shrinked the Knoppix to 512Mb Flash-USB, 256Mb, 128Mb, 100Mb...???

[Stephen Samuel <samnospam@bcgreen.com>]

Getting it under 512MB not difficult at all.

What I did wastransfer the CD image to a disk partition (using the 
'tohd=' boot param) and then boot from that (fromhd=, or boot using grub 
as my NOTES at http://www/bcgreen.com/knoppix/ )

I then started with a list of packages and deleted anything that was 
clearly unnecessary to my interests (( in the instant case I was trying 
to put together a cd that could boot and copy into 380MB of  RAM so that 
the machine could be used as a  DVD player using just a single DVD player)

Once you shrink the size by enough then use the remastering tools to 
build a boot CD image, then butn and test the image.  Rinse and repeat 
as needed.

In theory , you could store the current state of /ramdisk so as to 
preserve the state of deleted packages, but I found it easier to just 
keep a list of deleted packages, and change that until I had a set that 
worked for me.

In my case -- and because this was mostly intended as a single-use CD, I 
was able to delete kde and move to a more sparse manager like  twm as my 
desktop.  If you're doing headless or text only work then you can get 
rid of X entirely and boot to runlevel 2 instead of 5.

In my case, getting rid of KDE broke a number of packages which I was 
able to also include in my 'delete' list.

dpkg --simulate --purge  `cat remove_list` 

is a nice way to test whether a delete list is going to be usable.

If the image isn't small enough then keep deleting until you're happy.


www.skype.com(ContactOnlineSkypeName*icq343748124*) wrote:
> Здравствуйте, debian-knoppix.
>
> How I can shrinked the Knoppix to 512Mb Flash-USB, 256Mb, 128Mb, 100Mb...???
>
> And the specific question- My future some projects- using Knoppix as
> universal ROM module in the any hardware computers for control the
> SPECIFIC apparature-
> the interests to me is:
> 1. Full control from any IR-TV-pults
> 2. Full control for any-talk chat-program(I like using te Skype for linux. Its
> really work witk Knoppix!!! questions to http://clanmain.9zima.com/viewforum.php?f=53&sid=af82b6b74a6aea60d4ec4adfb385adb5)
> 3. Using the Knoppix as universal decoder for any SATELLITE-DIGITAL-TV
> 4. and more...
>   
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