I want to shrink slackware down as much as possible. I just finished installing it, and it is 150MB in size. I installed only select things from A, AB, and whatever the networking one was.

So um... what to remove?

Hard to say :) ... depends on what you use,
and what you have installed ;)

Cheers,
Tink

The only bit of extra stuff on there will be the patched pcmcia_cs-3.2.1 drivers, and kismet. That is all.

See "Minimalistic Approach to Slackware Linux System"
http://village.flashnet.it/users/fn048069/minislak.html

Didn't we just do this?

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...threadid=43217

Enjoy!
--- Cerbere

Not as minimal as I'm trying to do it....

imo first learn what programme does what then depending on your needs delete them
thx

In zipslack are contained hundreds of time zones, dozens of character sets, dozens of keyboards, dozens of irrelevant documentations, and dozens of all kinds of funny devices in /dev. Altogether they take about 15 MByte of 100. However when I tried to remove them, my zipslack didn't work any more :-(
I think somebody with good knowledge could do a good job by clearing it out.

hhhmm, DON'T delete ANY of the associated Library files that are used by KDE/and or Gnome......., I upgraded Gkrellm, there is a ported version for Slack!! BUT IT requires a lib file from one of the Gnome libraries.......atk
I did not have "atk" installed and therefore Gkrellm would not work, it took all but 30 min to find it but........those Libs are important, even if you don't/won't use Gnome itself keep the Libs installed..............

If you *really* want something small, Slackware is not the way to go... Try Tom's root/boot disk:
http://www.toms.net/rb/

Or Tiny Linux (older Slackware-based distro):
http://tiny.seul.org/en/index.html

Besides, you did not say what, exactly, you want to do with your tiny Slack distro: browse the net? Program in C? something else?

If you want to gain some more space, I would suggest removing from "N" (Network) everything that you don't need: things like pine, links, lynx, elm, etc... and all the non-essential utilities, like dns, ntp, nntp, slip, etc.

Theoretically, you could have a Slackware with nothing but dhcp/dhcpcd (or ppp/pppd) and ssh/sshd and it would allow you to connect to another server and work from there.

You should always keep minicom, pring, traceroute and telnet, though: these are essential for debugging modems and basic net connectivity!

Hope this helps...

Well, the third post in this thread summed it up. I want the pcmcia-cs drivers and kismet to run. This is a wardriving machine, text only.

I gave up on trying to get everything to work right on a 200MB disk, so I bought a 1.3GB one that should make life easier.