Re: How I can shrinked the Knoppix to 512Mb Flash-USB, 256Mb, 128Mb, 100Mb...???
Hi Stephen,
> Getting it under 512MB not difficult at all.
>
> What I did was transfer the CD image to a disk partition (using the
> 'tohd=' boot param)
Please explain in more detail about ('tohd=' boot param)
Whether you meant
dd if=/dev/cdrom of=/dev/hdaX
hdaX is the partition on HD created for remastering.
> and then boot from that (fromhd=, or boot using
> grub
Please explain in more detail. When booting the HD, the installed OS
will take control. Tks.
> as my NOTES at http://www/bcgreen.com/knoppix/ )
Whether
http://www.bcgreen.com/knoppix/
under which notes. TIA
B.R.
SL
> 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:
> > Çäðàâñòâóéòå, 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...
> >
> --
> Stephen Samuel +1(778)861-7641 samnospam@bcgreen.com
> http://www.bcgreen.com/
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