If you want a reasonable approximation to a headless, but otherwise full Debian installation, your best bet would be to buy a 2GB USB2.0 flash drive. 32 MB isn't going to cut it. Crucial sells their "Gizmo! jr" 2 GB drive[1] for US$15. It's "about half the size of a stick of gum". (A bit pricey for only 2 GB; they sell a 4 GB drive for less than that, but it is a more conventional "thumb-drive" size. However, if physical size matters, the "Gizmo! jr" is the smallest I've found.)
I've got an NSLU2 ("slug") with 32 MB RAM and 8 MB of flash doing duty as an NTP server. It has a "Gizmo! jr" drive as it's only mass storage. Works a treat.
When using flash for a general purpose file system, you need to be careful about minimizing writes. See the debian-arm list archives for details.
Enjoy! Rick [1] http://www.crucial.com/store/partspecs.aspx?IMODULE=CT2GBUFDJNR000 On Mar 26, 2010, at 12:46 PM, VR wrote:
On 3/26/2010 12:09 PM, VR wrote:Hello,I'm poking at a Wyse 3150SE and have the 180 MB netinst booting from USB but would ideally want the operating system inside this unit instead ofattaching a permanent USB flash for storage.I'm wondering if anyone lurking here has successfully gotten Debian toinstall into less than 32 MB of disk space? Or if it's possible?Also important to note; I'm not planning to do GUI based stuff - ever. I'm trying to create a small footprint console services based device like a DHCP server or print server or SSH server... stuff like that. I've got a few of these devices I can reuse so I'll probably only do a single service per unit.--To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-REQUEST@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster@lists.debian.orgArchive: [🔎] 4BACE4E7.305@iotk.net">http://lists.debian.org/[🔎] 4BACE4E7.305@iotk.net