On Wed, Jun 04, 2008 at 10:56:22PM -0400, John Culleton wrote:
On Sunday 25 May 2008 05:04:22 pm Hans Hagen wrote:
Patrick Gundlach wrote:
Hello Hans,
> But also much bigger. Having an ubuntu/context (vmware) image > is not hard to create, but it will take something like 2 gig. > Nice idea, though.
so much?
With a lot of effort one could cut it down a bit. The problem is that there is no way to get a minimal ubuntu/gnome desktop, only the regular one with all kinds of software (open office etc.) pre installed. You can remove this software, but I don't know how far to go. It takes some time experimenting. I've played around with this quite a bit and I always get about 2 gig of disk space. Without java, this could be 1.5 or so. Installing such a vm (vmware based) takes about 10-20 minutes, including all vmware hacks. So this is the smallest part.
The Ubuntu alternate cd lets you do a text-only install. Afterwords, you can add whatever you want.
aren't there those tiny linuxes of some 50 meg ?
Hans
Slackware allows you to pick and choose which software you install. And a CDR variant, Slax, will run from a mini-cdr. There are other diminutive Linuxes.
Debian is another distro which lets you pick and choose during installation. -- Siep Kroonenberg