[gobolinux-users] How to extract Gobolinux files to a 256MB pen/thumb drive?

[Lucas C. Villa Real]

On 10/27/06, Rayne Van-Dunem <raynenamibia at gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm trying to realize my idea of Gobolinux 012 on a USB thumb drive at the
> moment, and I've gotten some random shareware app (Undisker) for extracting
> files from ISOs so as to move them to the thumb drive. However, the kernel
> and initrd components are, for the lack of a better term, freakin' huge. And
> this stick only has 256MB of space, might I add.
>
> Is there a way to trim the files down so that I could fit them all into the
> drive without screwing anything up?

I'd recommend you to start by copying the entire distribution to a
separate directory. Then look at kernel modules you're not going to
need, and remove them from System/Kernel/Modules. After that, take a
look at your Programs directory, and see what you're not going to
need. These are probably things like AbsTK, Aspell, Autoconf,
Automake, BC, Bin86, Bison, CDRDAO, CDRTools, CUPS, Cdparanoia, and so
on.

I'd really recommend you to compile Busybox too, which should replace
a _lot_ of tools. I've a small setup here that simply has the
following programs: BusyBox, Glibc, GoboHide, Grub, JPEG, LibPNG,
OpenSSH, OpenSSL, TinyScripts and ZLib. Based on this small base, you
can easily add further programs such as Xorg, GTK+/Qt, a window
manager, an internet browser, a image manipulation program, and so on.

Some weeks ago I prepared a tiny Gobo system to be able to run LMbench
in a few computers. Besides the fact that it's based on Glibc 2.3.6,
you may find it easier to use it as a quickstart. The ISO is available
here:
http://lucasvr.gobolinux.org/Gobo-LMbench-001.iso

This tiny setup has been entirely generated by the Bootstrap tool,
documented here:
http://gobo.kundor.org/wiki/GoboLinux_Embedded

Good luck,

-- 
Lucas
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