on Fri, Sep 28, 2001 at 04:37:27PM -0700, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry (shalehperry@home.com) wrote: > > > > Is there is a possibility for using the Debian > > distribution for creating Linux routers? > > > > - How low can anyone go? > > - Has someone tried to use the debian distribution > > for diskless linux routers (< 5 Mbytes). > > - Any URL, documentation, or does this idea not > > sound at all? > > > > so let's look at what gets installed. /usr/share/doc can just be > deleted as can a few others. A few of the packages installed by the > installer are not truly needed. In fact just using base itself would > get you where you need to be with only minor twiddling. However once > you start down this path you have lost all of Debian's advantages > because the packaging system is no longer useful. A better route might be to use Debian to set up a "master" system from which various bootdisks are formed. If "bootdisk" is extended to somewhere between 1.4MB and, say, 200MB in size, you're spanning a wide range of removeable or read-only media. And few read-only systems will have need for a packaging or update system.... Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <kmself@ix.netcom.com> http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? Home of the brave http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/ Land of the free Free Dmitry! Boycott Adobe! Repeal the DMCA! http://www.freesklyarov.org Geek for Hire http://kmself.home.netcom.com/resume.html
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