Steve Bergman wrote: > On Thu, 2006-09-28 at 09:33 -0500, Erick Perez wrote: > > >> Let's see how it goes and i will report back. I will start today, hehe. >> It must fit a CF card and my boss told me that try to put it in a 128 >> mb CF card. anyway Let's see how it ends.... >> > > > > Once you trim it to <128MB... is it really CentOS anymore? > > Might you be better off starting with something like Damn Small Linux or > DSL-N ( http://www.damnsmalllinux.org/ ) which are already close to what > you want. A <128MB CentOS is not just trimming the fat. It's carving > off the skin, fat, and muscle, and leaving just the skeleton. Though to > get it that small, you might have to amputate a leg. ;-) > Also, once you've got it stripped down to the point where you need it, you might be able to save even more space by punting a lot of the more common unix tools and installing busybox instead. http://www.busybox.net/ Given how cheap 1 and 2gb flash devices are these days, it shouldn't take a whole lot of effort to get a fully functional CentOS on a chip without a gastric bypass. :) Cheers,