I have found this link http://owlriver.com/tips/tiny-centos for installing centos on a minimal system. I am looking at putting centos on a 1 GIG flash drive. The above page talks about removing packages after install to attain the small size.
however, I am getting blocked at the install page about not enough room to install. All I have selected is the base package. nothing else.
Is there a way to install "less thank" base... I tried to option off items in the base package but the last message I got was about 1044 was my packages size...
Anyone have suggestions or have tried to install on a small device. THanks,
Jerry
On Wed, 2008-05-28 at 16:42 -0400, Jerry Geis wrote:
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however, I am getting blocked at the install page about not enough room to install. All I have selected is the base package. nothing else.
Is there a way to install "less thank" base... I tried to option off items in the base package but the last message I got was about 1044 was my packages size...
IIRC, there are several threads about this on the site. I *think* it was that you need to also unselect individual packages to get a truly minimal install. Check out the archives.
Anyone have suggestions or have tried to install on a small device. THanks,
Jerry
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HTH
William L. Maltby wrote:
IIRC, there are several threads about this on the site. I *think* it was that you need to also unselect individual packages to get a truly minimal install. Check out the archives.
correct, and you need to run the GUI installer..
Jerry Geis wrote:
I have found this link http://owlriver.com/tips/tiny-centos for installing centos on a minimal system. I am looking at putting centos on a 1 GIG flash drive. The above page talks about removing packages after install to attain the small size.
however, I am getting blocked at the install page about not enough room to install. All I have selected is the base package. nothing else.
You can actually deselect "base" too although I don't know if will make it small enough to install.
Jerry Geis wrote:
I have found this link http://owlriver.com/tips/tiny-centos for installing centos on a minimal system. I am looking at putting centos on a 1 GIG flash drive. The above page talks about removing packages after install to attain the small size.
however, I am getting blocked at the install page about not enough room to install. All I have selected is the base package. nothing else.
Is there a way to install "less thank" base... I tried to option off items in the base package but the last message I got was about 1044 was my packages size...
Anyone have suggestions or have tried to install on a small device. THanks,
uClinux, busybox, and use a combination of flashfs (r/o, highly compressed) and jffs2 (r/w) and you'll have most of that 1GB flash available for applications (I've run a system based on this mix on hardware with 16MB ram and 8MB flash and had freespace). yes, you'll be rolling your own going this way.
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