[gobolinux-users] GoboLinux on a PenDrive

[teique]

Lucas C. Villa Real wrote:
> 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.
hey nice, I read the shrink code idea there :)

it remembers me about those 1diskete distros, or may be a very generic 
small install that support Xorg and internet (I mean all pnp ethernet 
cards but only generic video drivers and a good browser like firefox, 
the idea would be a fast and easy way to make system work again after we 
mess with it ^^, well gobo live CD already can do it right? despite we 
cant save changes and takes a lot of time booting {slow cd reader} hehe..).

in my case, for ex., I will need g++ compiler and "info libc" at least,
despite I think ur script should not care on specific packages/stuff
like these, but anyway a --skip="a,b,libc" option could work fine ^^.
I will just copy stuff from my current desktop to the pendrive
and follow some guidelines u specified there, thx :)

PS.: I think it would be handy an UnShrink script based on a shrink.log 
may be, that could gather specific files from install packages stored at 
/Depot/Packages (ok, this would probably be a mount point in this 
case..), and so put them back and symlink.
>
> 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,
>