How did you manage to squeeze all in 48/83 MB?

[daniel at debian.org (Daniel Baumann)]

Ottavio Caruso wrote:
> What I wonder is: if a standard etch installation takes about 200MB
> (and you load packages from the base package, don't you?), how did
> you manage to squeeze it all in 83 MB, never mind the minimal 48 M
> image? I'd like to use the same system for other projects, namely a
> minimal hd install.

by using squashfs compression.

> Second, how do you use the source tarball?

which source tarball? you mean netboot?

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