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On Fri, Jan 12, 2001 at 06:03:26PM +0000, Thomas Flavel wrote: |
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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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> 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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Daniel Robbins <drobbins@g.o> |
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President/CEO http://www.gentoo.org |
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Gentoo Technologies, Inc. |