On Fri, Jan 12, 2001 at 06:03:26PM +0000, Thomas Flavel wrote:
> On Fri, 12 Jan 2001 drobbins@g.o wrote:
> 
> > console-based Linux system".  If someone needs a "stripped sys" (for a special
> > project), it's easy enough to remove the packages that aren't needed (or use a
> 
> That reminds me, what kind of minium size are we looking at here? I
> would very much like to get gentoo running on my hand held pc, which has
> a mere 32Mb ram and no other disks (I can't afford any ;) - eventually
> it will go into rom, but is it feasible to make a tiny image of a system
> to fit into that? du estimates please :)

Do you have an x86 handheld pc?  The base system won't fit within 32Mb; getting
it to fit would require some serious stripping down and a few tricks.

> Also I was wondering if there was going to be a "recovery disk"
> (although I'm more than happy to use the boot cd)?

We're moving towards being a CD-based distribution and have no immediate plans
to create a 1.44Mb bootable recovery disk.

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Daniel Robbins					<drobbins@g.o>
President/CEO					http://www.gentoo.org 
Gentoo Technologies, Inc.