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

[Rayne Van-Dunem]

Thanks, but right now I'm running WinXP because I've partitioned the hard
drive one time too many (I've installed many other distros within the past
two years, then reinstalled Windows again). So compiling from a Gobo system
won't be feasible until I can get a replacement drive (maybe an external
one).

This gives me an idea, though.

Ever heard of SLAX <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SLAX>? It was made by one
guy who used a combination of Slackware and Linux
Live<http://www.linux-live.org/>scripts. Someone else created the
MySLAX
Creator <http://myslax.bonsonno.org/>, which allows you to create a custom
SLAX LiveCD .iso in Windows using those same components (Slackware and Linux
Live scripts).

I dunno if you all would want it, but this (MyGobo?) might help matters for
anyone who may want to migrate from Windows to Gobo (hard drive, LiveCD or
LiveUSB) without having to be running a Linux system beforehand.

Rayne

On 10/27/06, Lucas C. Villa Real <lucasvr at gobolinux.org> wrote:
>
> 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,
>
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> Lucas
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