Thank you...Daneil and John... My device configuration is as follows. CPU : intel Celeron M 1.60 Ghz DIMM : W/DDR 1GB ECC IDE(Primary Master) : Compact Flash (1 GB) IDE(Primary Master) : Compact Flash (256 GB) My confusion is that if it is possible to customize the CentOS for my application. Regards Vishak V Kurup -----Original Message----- From: centos-devel-bounces at centos.org [mailto:centos-devel-bounces at centos.org] On Behalf Of John Summerfield Sent: Thursday, January 10, 2008 6:22 PM To: The CentOS developers mailing list. Subject: Re: [CentOS-devel] Using Centos as embedded linux. Daniel de Kok wrote: > On 1/10/08, Vishak V. Kurup <vishak.kurup at nestgroup.net> wrote: >> I am newbie to Centos. I would like to know if it is possible to use centos on embedded devices. >> Has any one done any thing similar? Please do reply with any comments � > > That completely depends on the application. Currently a minimal system > is fairly large (~400-~500MB IIRC). This may be OK for some embedded > devices, and one or two orders of magnitude too large for other > embedded devices. I didn't think it was that small, unless you're talking about the amount of RAM needed to run recent anacondas:-) > > If you need something much smaller (or a non-supported platform like > ARM), I'd suggest looking at Busybox or a BSD operating system. Debian is very popular on ARM; I think I read it has more Linux system on ARM than on IA32!. The linksys wireless router, wrt54g runs Linux and there are alternative firmwares for it. Look for openwrt for info on that. -- Cheers John -- spambait 1aaaaaaa at coco.merseine.nu Z1aaaaaaa at coco.merseine.nu -- Advice http://webfoot.com/advice/email.top.php http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html http://support.microsoft.com/kb/555375 You cannot reply off-list:-) _______________________________________________ CentOS-devel mailing list CentOS-devel at centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-devel