How was it stripped down to 50MB?

Forum: Other Help Topics
Topic: How was it stripped down to 50MB?
started by: banjujuster

Posted by banjujuster on July 10 2006,01:15

I'm very curious how it was stripped down to 50MB from knoppix? I want to learn how to do this?

I've been searching for days now I've got some few ideas from the search results yet still not enough.

How someone might able to answer.

Posted by ^thehatsrule^ on July 10 2006,01:44

Search around for "remastering"

Posted by banjujuster on July 10 2006,05:16

remastering is more on updating an existing knoppix like distro. I was hoping someone or some docu's that tells you what you can remove and what you shouldn't.

for e.g. if you debootstrap, dpkg won't allow you to remove some of the deb packages because their the core packages that made the base system.

However, there are some workaround with this I know for sure someone has done this and I'm hoping not to re-invent the wheel.

My goal is to create a gibraltar like distro as small as DSL perhaps smaller because I would need only iptables & apache & php. It would be a great start for me to learn embedded/tiny/micro linux distribution. I've already started knoppix from scratch but its too fat.

I want to do this because of my curiosity and give a headstart for curios guy like me how to build your own that suits your desire.

Posted by kerry on July 10 2006,11:08

Have you tried looking at puppy barebones it's like 39mb or if you don't need gui there's onebone 28mb. take a look -> < http://www.puppylinux.org/user/downloads.php?cat_id=1 >

Posted by ^thehatsrule^ on July 12 2006,07:58

Well you search the wiki for "history" and this seems to be what you might be looking for

< http://damnsmalllinux.org/wiki/index.php/About_Damn_Small_Linux >

Posted by newby on July 17 2006,04:57

Contact Roberts,

< http://damnsmalllinux.org/cgi-bin....5284614 >

He's got a stripped down DSL that you might be able to start with.