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On Fri, 12 Jan 2001 drobbins@g.o wrote: |
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> > > console-based Linux system". If someone needs a "stripped sys" (for a special |
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> > > project), it's easy enough to remove the packages that aren't needed (or use a |
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> > That reminds me, what kind of minium size are we looking at here? I |
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> > would very much like to get gentoo running on my hand held pc, which has |
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> > a mere 32Mb ram and no other disks (I can't afford any ;) - eventually |
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> > it will go into rom, but is it feasible to make a tiny image of a system |
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> > to fit into that? du estimates please :) |
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> Do you have an x86 handheld pc? The base system won't fit within 32Mb; getting |
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> it to fit would require some serious stripping down and a few tricks. |
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Hitachi SH3 - I was wondering for the future :) |
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I wasn't aware there are any x86 hand held pcs? I would have though the |
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power requirements would be too high? |
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> > Also I was wondering if there was going to be a "recovery disk" |
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> > (although I'm more than happy to use the boot cd)? |
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> We're moving towards being a CD-based distribution and have no immediate plans |
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> to create a 1.44Mb bootable recovery disk. |
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Ok, that's good. I didn't like floppies anyway ;) |
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- Tom |