Gentoo desktop?
Jamon Camisso
jamon.camisso-H217xnMUJC0sA/PxXw9srA at public.gmane.org
Fri Jan 11 01:14:30 UTC 2008
On January 10, 2008 05:13:25 pm Christopher Browne wrote:
> On Jan 10, 2008 10:03 PM, Ian Petersen <ispeters-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> > By the way, another nice feature of Gentoo is that it's easy to
> > create a minimal system. I've never used real Debian (only
> > Ubuntu), so maybe it's just as easy there, but on Gentoo, you have
> > to choose everything, so you can choose small system services or,
> > if you're feeling non-standard, you can choose not to install a
> > cron daemon or a system logger, or whatever. You could probably do
> > the same thing with Ubuntu, but in the Gentoo case, you start with
> > nothing and build up whereas Ubuntu starts with a heck of a lot and
> > you'd have to whittle down. I think it'd be easier to build a
> > small system by starting with nothing than by starting with a big
> > system.
>
> The "minimum" for Debian is basically the set of packages required to
> have: a) Network connectivity working, and
> b) Package management working.
>
> That is what you need as a bootstrap in order to install anything
> else, and is indeed pretty minimal. To have less would mean you
> couldn't upgrade the system.
Got bored at school waiting on my group to show up for a project, so I
ssh'ed home and did the following:
root at zeus:~# dd if=/dev/zero of=debian-etch.img bs=1M count=300
root at zeus:~# mke2fs -j -m0 debian-etch.img
root at zeus:~# mount -o loop debian-etch.img /mnt
root at zeus:~# df -h /mnt
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/root/debian-etch.img
291M 11M 281M 4% /mnt
root at zeus:~# debootstrap --arch amd64 etch debian-etch.img
root at zeus:~# chroot /mnt
root at zeus:~# apt-get install linux-image-2.6-amd64 && apt-get clean
root at zeus:/# df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
sysfs 291M 200M 92M 69% /sys
root at zeus:/# dpkg --get-selections |wc -l
132
So there you have it, 200mb for a complete Debian Etch bootstrapped
system, including kernel and initrd, 132 packages installed in total
including cron, adduser, man pages etc.
apt-get says there are "9248 files and directories currently installed"
in total after adding the kernel.
Jamon
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