Have you tried tinylogin? tinylogin.busybox.net

Have you tried busybox? www.busybox.net



Both of these can make a system MUCH smaller.



If glibc is taking up lots of room, consider uClibc, but it isn't necessarily as straightforward as tinylogin and busybox.

check this out: http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/showthread.php?s=&threadid;=88991



I'm currently using k-drive (tinyx), sylpheed (email), skipstone (browser). Did you try Mplayer?

uClibc is probably too difficult, because everything would have to be recompiled, and one of the things I like about the current setup is that it's basically a current system using a common distro.



tinylogin is probably a good idea, although I wonder how much does it save (login is not precisely big :-)



Busybox looks cool :-)



k-drive is cool, I need to try it, this article is older than it seems (about two years old) I do get hardware acceleration for this chipset with the regular X, though.



Sylpheed really seemed too heavy when I tried it, specially its RAM usage is about five times mutt's.



skipstone I haven't tried, I am really happy with links.



Mplayer is just too heavy. I get about 0.05fps with it.

Debian does have a network config tool, just apt-get install etherconf



you may also wanna try rcconf (ntsysv like runlevel editor)

Andrew: well, to do that, I would have to have the network configured. Then what use is it? ;-)

hi,



It all looks very interesting but could you add a short explanation to every step that isn't clear how to do for a newb.

for example:

I'm interested in how to make ash the default ? I made sh a simlink to ash but I still see bash in 'top' and not a single ash.



Sorry for my ignorance

Re: Gunnix



No, I can't add an explanation to every step. That would make it five times as long, and I have no time.



Making sh a symlink to ash means that when someone calls sh, he gets ash.



However, your user profile probably says /bin/bash, not /bin/sh.



Anyway, the idea was mostly to speed up booting, since ash is pretty awful as an interactive shell.

ok, thx for your explanation on ash.

You can save memory by reducing the number of Virtual Consoles. Open /etc/inittab and go to:



1:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty --noclear tty1

[..]

5:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty5

6:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty6



Then add a # to each console you want to disable:



1:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty --noclear tty1

2:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty2

3:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty3

#4:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty4

#5:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty5

#6:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty6



You can also use Dillo (about 300 Kb) as graphical web browser.

Nice.

What distro do you find barebones yet convienient to build up upon?



(lfs surely waay too much work?)

LFS is waaaaaay too much work :-)



Arch is nice and simple enough, but the lack of admin tools can drive you nuts unless you know exactly what you are doing.

I am aware this article is quite old but no harm in asking anyway:

could i get a copy of the kernel configfile you have used for the libretto 50 if it is still available?



I just got myself one of these jewels and i want to have it as fast as possible :)

No, sorry, the libretto has gone to heaven a few months ago.