Distro running Debian and smaller than Damn Small Linux?

Xeratul · 01-04-2013, 11:01 PM

Hi,

I would like to run qemu with a non-X11 version of linux such as Linux Debian Live.

However I would like to have it tiny. Does Debian Live exists in something of about 20 Mb max?

Best regards
X.

Thor_2.0 · 01-05-2013, 03:55 PM

How about mini ubuntu?

Thor

ukiuki · 01-05-2013, 04:00 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Xeratul

...Does Debian Live exists in something of about 20 Mb max?...

I have never heard of anything like that, Debian 6.0.6 minimal install takes a little more than 500Mb, that without X,
Now if you know how to build it from scratch it might be a lot smaller.
There are other distros way smaller than Debian though,
http://www.tinycorelinux.com/ this is one of them.

Regards

Xeratul · 01-05-2013, 11:02 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ukiuki

I have never heard of anything like that, Debian 6.0.6 minimal install takes a little more than 500Mb, that without X,
Now if you know how to build it from scratch it might be a lot smaller.
There are other distros way smaller than Debian though,
http://www.tinycorelinux.com/ this is one of them.

Regards

http://www.ubuntu-mini-remix.org/, is about 200 mb is too big

tinycore sounds very good. I could maybe make it embedded to run it in windows.

this file is about 8mb : http://www.tinycorelinux.net/4.x/x86...re-current.iso

If you have any tipps, please do not hesitate.

wigry · 01-06-2013, 05:49 AM

How about Ubuntu Core - meant specifically for embedded systems.

TobiSGD · 01-06-2013, 06:39 AM

I would like to understand your requirements better.
What is more important, size, compability with Debian, ...?
Why does it have to be so extremely small?
What do intend to do with the system?

knudfl · 01-06-2013, 07:25 AM

Smaller than 'Damn Small' : Slitaz
http://distrowatch.com/index.php?dis...h=all&year=all

Smaller than 'Damn Small' : Then it won't be a Debian OS.

Small and Debian based : Puppy Linux 5.4 "Precise"
http://distrowatch.com/index.php?dis...h=all&year=all

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snowpine · 01-06-2013, 09:48 AM

I would simply upgrade your storage; 20mb is an unusual and arbitrary limitation in 2013 when 4gb flash drives cost less than $10 and 1tb hard drives cost less than $100. As mentioned above, Debian developers recommend 1gb minimum (with 368mb as the absolute bare minimum) and they know more about Debian than anyone.

http://www.debian.org/releases/stabl...apds02.html.en

Rukiri · 01-19-2013, 11:40 PM

Why are you focused on debian and why 20MB? This isn't the 70s and even in the 80s the mac had what 100MB of disk space( I know I'm wrong but 100MBs+ was common in the 80s/90s).
What do you plan on doing?

Xeratul · 01-20-2013, 05:26 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Rukiri

Why are you focused on debian and why 20MB? This isn't the 70s and even in the 80s the mac had what 100MB of disk space( I know I'm wrong but 100MBs+ was common in the 80s/90s).
What do you plan on doing?

debootstrap minimal gives you 100mb about, even.

You are right about it.

I was just trying to have it (debian linux) working on a very old handeld. I got working the kernel, and desires a debian system.