Re: small debian on miniPC
On Mon, May 26, 2008 at 07:50:33PM -0400, Celejar wrote:
> On Tue, 27 May 2008 00:03:31 +0530
> Mihira Fernando <mihiratheace@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > On Monday 26 May 2008 21:51:52 abelahcene wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > > I want to install small linux, preferrable debian like, on miniPC DT166
> > > , gedeo. Thh disk (flash is small just 512 MB) , i have to install X, it
> > > will be used to run a graphical application from server. With
> > > standard debian I have a pb with video card, it is not detected
> > > automatically.
> > >
> > > thanks for help
> > > bela
> >
> > There is Damn Small Linux ( http://www.damnsmalllinux.org/ ) which is
> > derivative of Debian and it is extremely small and it has X. Give it a try.
>
> Or try grml-medium - it's under 200MB, it has X and fluxbox, and IIUC,
> it's closer to actual Debian than DSL. From the FAQ
> (http://grml.org/faq/):
>
My XO-1 with 1 GB has 2 OS's (Sugar and Debian) each takes about 300MB,
so if you start with the basic install, add X and fvwm, it should be
fine. look into debootstrap, iirc.
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