[ANN] PicoDebian: a thinned down version of Debian Sarge
Hi all,
First of all, let me apologise about cross-posting to the Soekris Tech
and Debian User mailing lists.
I have owned a Soekris[1] net4801[2] for many months now, and so far it
has been running Debian Sarge (testing) off an internal laptop hard
drive. Since I wasn't happy with this approach (for many reasons) I
decided to move to a read-only filesystem on a CF card. With very little
effort on my part, I managed to get a rather small root filesystem that
includes a plethora of goodies from ISC BIND and DHCP to OpenVPN (and
many more). Its main advantage though is that it will easily fit on a
32MB CF card, and could be shrunk even further with the removal of a few
extra goodies that I chose to include.
I've called my mini-sarge PicoDebian[3], mostly because my net4801 is
called Piccolo. I overcame my main obstacle of the read-only filesystem
with the help of Pebble[4] (which I didn't want to use because I needed
slightly more up-to-date packages). More information is available on my
site.
I must admit at the moment it's not fit for release, I'm mostly trying
to judge how much interest there is in such a thing before I go a
register a project on SourceForge or the like.
Regards,
Chris
References:
1. http://www.soekris.com/
2. http://www.soekris.com/net4801.htm
3. http://www.bootc.net/picodebian/
4. http://www.nycwireless.net/pebble/
--
Chris Boot
bootc@bootc.net
http://www.bootc.net/
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