[CentOS] small install

Peter Farrow peter at farrows.org
Tue Apr 19 13:20:21 UTC 2005


I want to get Centos installed on a 1Gig Flash card, but the smallest 
install possible using the Centos installer is bigger than this.

Using Debian its possible to get an install under 200 Megs, but Debian 
is a bit crap in that the quality control in the releases is very poor,

i.e. the installer keeps getting chuffed from one rev to the next....

Does anyone have any ideas on the best way for for this?

Additionally I would like to boot from an Encrypted file system on a 
regular hard disk, using a key on a compact flash card which I can 
remove once the machine has booted.

This would make my machines useless to anyone if they were stolen....

P.




Franki wrote:

> Francois Caen wrote:
>
>> On 4/18/05, Steve Huff <shuff at vecna.org> wrote:
>>
>>> http://mirror.centos.org/centos/4/os/i386/images/boot.iso
>>>
>>> and burn it to a CD.  documentation claims that you can boot from this
>>> CD and perform a network install.
>>
>>
>>
>> Bootable CD installs are so last year!
>>
>> I loaded CentOS4 from a USB thumbdrive. Yeah baby yeah!!!!
>>
>> ;-)
>
>
>
> Really? I just got my first thumbdrive last month, what proceedure did 
> you use for that?
> is there an online doc somewhere?
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