Can suse be under a gig with KDE?

Javahulk · 03-17-2005, 05:43 PM

Ok, iv got 1 gig of space to work with on my new thumb drive, and Suse is by far the best flavor iv played with so far.

Can anyone tell me how to get this thing under a gig? The only thing I can think of is to install the default KDE and remove packages from inside it, because if I do to much of that from the installer it tends to not boot =(.

Thanks!

piscikeeper · 03-17-2005, 08:25 PM

you might want to look at distros like flash linux or mandrake move.suse will un-compress when it installs while the others only do so for the running programs.(think live-cd on a thumb drive)

Javahulk · 03-17-2005, 08:47 PM

would it be a live cd install or a REAL linux install? because I cant imagine any reason why you would buy a USB drive just to put a live cd on it, and thats what I hear most people doing lol

if I cant install my own software like a real distro its no use to me, I'll play around with those 2 either way so thank you for the tip =)

bornhj · 03-17-2005, 09:35 PM

Damn Small Linux @ www.damnsmalllinux.org is perfect of you will settle for Fluxbox instead of KDE. They've got everything you need, and it's only around 50MB, so I assume you could probably apt-get KDE onto it...

Javahulk · 03-17-2005, 09:52 PM

I tried DSL befor but it requires a swap, I dont think it would boot if I installed a swap on a harddrive and then just moved the files over like I planned, wouldent it try and use a swap that doesent exist and freak out?

when I tried it I wasent using a drive I was just trying to put it right onto the flash drive, I'll give it a shot

my problem with flux is that I dont know my way around it, iv gotten used to KDE so using third party tools for EVERYTHING just seems kind of pointless and non-unified

Javahulk · 03-17-2005, 10:47 PM

no read only distros, why on earth would anyone blow a hundred bucks on a flash drive to do what they can for a .50$ cd???? I cant figure out why anyone would do that I really cant, its not like flash drives will boot more often, I havent gotten my drive to boot on any machine without a cd so far anyway, but thats a problem Im not dealing with till after its actually got a real linux on it lol

if I cant install software and do everything I can on a real install its usless