Fordi
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Posted: Sep. 14 2004,02:44 |
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This is for anyone with a 256M Disk-on-chip/Compact-Flash disk, specifically.
So you want to build a thin client.
You can do the frugal install, yes. It only takes 50M + extensions. Problem: filesystem is read-only. You're going to have some troubles installing that cool software you wanted.
You can do a full install - which will take up to 200M. You've got the space, but almost no breathing room.
What to do?
Go for the full. Set up dpkg-restore and apt. (Apps->Tools->Enable Apt)
hit a root prompt and type in:
apt-get install upx-ucl
UPX is an executable compression program. It won't work on the libraries, but you can free up to 25M by packing your /bin, /usr/bin, /usr/sbin, /usr/X11R6/bin, /usr/local/bin and /usr/local/sbin. It's not much, I'll agree, but it's definately better than a poke in the eye with a sharp stick - and it's about 40% more space to work with on that 256M disk-on-chip. Additionally, anything else you install can be upx'ed, saving more precious space. The exception here is uci's. They're read-only, so no packing them. Not that they occupy disk space other than their already-compressed form in the /tmp folder, anyways.
UPDATE: DO NOT, repeat, DO NOT attempt to compress the /sbin folder. For one thing, init won't work right. (think Kernel Panic)
on the up side, if you do screw something up in your experiments (as I have):
Boot from dsl CD
get to a root console
mount your root partition (/dev/hda3 in my case)
have tar copy all the files from /KNOPPIX
Here's how:
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mount /dev/hda3
tar -C /KNOPPIX -cf - . | tar -C /mnt/hda3 -xf -
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why tar? Well, really I don't know. That's how it's done in the dsl-hdinstall script, and my guess is that piped tar will do things that plain old cp -a won't.
reboot and reinstall the gnu-utils.dsl package from the dillo/mydsl interface
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