Fedora install on a 1 GB CF card
lanas
lanas at securenet.net
Wed Nov 26 03:03:29 UTC 2008
On Tue, 25 Nov 2008 16:23:29 +0530,
"Steve Repo" <scmuser at gmail.com> wrote :
>> I would like to install a minimal Fedora system on a 1 GB CF
>> card. Is there any recipe around to do this ? Maybe doing a
>> regular Fedora install but having the /dev/sdb (eg. the CF card)
>> as the target and picking up the packages to install
>> carefully (eg. w/o X server and any graphical stuff for
>> instance). Possibly w/o any swap. A minimal system.
> Any reason why you want fedora and not puppy linux/damn small linux?
Fedora is a requierement.
> I thought fedora spins were just the regular fedora installs with
> updated packages released via updates repository.
>From the Pungi description (I don't know if it's still in use in fedora
10) it looks like a customizing tool. I would expect to be easily able
to drop off the X server for instance and any graphic app and devel
tools, while it takes care of the dependencies for doing installs.
I might take a look at it, but first...
> I guess you could fit fedora on 1GB with bare minimal install. Try
> it :-)
Thanks to the link provided by Michael, I have a hint at how to start
doing it.
Cheers.
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