I have found this link http://owlriver.com/tips/tiny-centos for installing centos on a minimal system. I am looking at putting centos on a 1 GIG flash drive. The above page talks about removing packages after install to attain the small size. however, I am getting blocked at the install page about not enough room to install. All I have selected is the base package. nothing else. Is there a way to install "less thank" base... I tried to option off items in the base package but the last message I got was about 1044 was my packages size... Anyone have suggestions or have tried to install on a small device. THanks, Jerry
On Wed, 2008-05-28 at 16:42 -0400, Jerry Geis wrote:> <snip>> however, I am getting blocked at the install page about not enough room > to install. > All I have selected is the base package. nothing else. > > Is there a way to install "less thank" base... I tried to option off > items in the base package > but the last message I got was about 1044 was my packages size...IIRC, there are several threads about this on the site. I *think* it was that you need to also unselect individual packages to get a truly minimal install. Check out the archives.> > Anyone have suggestions or have tried to install on a small device. THanks, > > Jerry > <snip sig stuff>HTH -- Bill
Jerry Geis wrote:> I have found this link http://owlriver.com/tips/tiny-centos > for installing centos on a minimal system. I am looking at putting > centos on a 1 GIG flash drive. The above page talks about removing packages > after install to attain the small size. > > however, I am getting blocked at the install page about not enough room > to install. > All I have selected is the base package. nothing else. >You can actually deselect "base" too although I don't know if will make it small enough to install.
Jerry Geis wrote:> I have found this link http://owlriver.com/tips/tiny-centos > for installing centos on a minimal system. I am looking at putting > centos on a 1 GIG flash drive. The above page talks about removing > packages > after install to attain the small size. > > however, I am getting blocked at the install page about not enough > room to install. > All I have selected is the base package. nothing else. > > Is there a way to install "less thank" base... I tried to option off > items in the base package > but the last message I got was about 1044 was my packages size... > > Anyone have suggestions or have tried to install on a small device. > THanks,uClinux, busybox, and use a combination of flashfs (r/o, highly compressed) and jffs2 (r/w) and you'll have most of that 1GB flash available for applications (I've run a system based on this mix on hardware with 16MB ram and 8MB flash and had freespace). yes, you'll be rolling your own going this way.
Jerry Geis wrote:> I have found this link http://owlriver.com/tips/tiny-centos > for installing centos on a minimal system. I am looking at putting > centos on a 1 GIG flash drive. The above page talks about removing > packages after install to attain the small size. > > however, I am getting blocked at the install page about not enough > room > to install. > All I have selected is the base package. nothing else. > > Is there a way to install "less thank" base... I tried to option off > items in the base package > but the last message I got was about 1044 was my packages size... > > Anyone have suggestions or have tried to install on a small device. > THanks, > > JerryCreate a kickstart file with the packages removed as shown in the appendix on their web page. Dean