[gobolinux-users] GoboLinux on a PenDrive

[Lucas C. Villa Real]

On 7/5/06, teique <teique at gmail.com> wrote:
> Will it work? I mean of course an USB machine with USB boot enabled..
>
> can I buy 512MB or should I buy 1Giga? cuz of the ammount of symlinks
> and the way ext3 stores each file (I mean minimum filesize)
>
> I need to prepare an easy to write and connect file storage to take to
> other machines, w/o loosing time configuring each machine the way I need
> them to work.. :)

Yes, it will. I'm working on a project where I've Gobo up and running
with 11 (eleven) MB of flash storage. It's possible to shrink it a lot
by removing headers, static libraries, documentation, man and info
pages, binaries used only at compile time, stripping libraries and so
on. However, you won't be able to use your compiler to compile new
apps if you remove that many things.

I think that you can reach your 512MB just by doing a small cleanup on
packages you won't need and by removing locale data which is not from
your interest. If you're very serious about space usage, I welcome you
to join in the development of the Shrink scripts for Bootstrap:
http://cvs.savannah.nongnu.org/viewcvs/tools/Bootstrap/?root=goboscripts

Cheers,

-- 
Lucas
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