working on an usb-stick variant of grml

Yesterday I've been working for an USB-stick variant of grml. I could reduce the ISO from nearly 700 MB down to 307 MB:

% ls -lah grml_0.4b.iso
-rw-r--r--  1 root root 307M 2005-05-16 12:40 grml_0.4b.iso

All the documentation, LaTeX and stuff like emacs had to leave. Booting still works as intented to, even X is running. ;-) Now I've to reduce the iso for another 51 MB so we can provide a grml-ISO for a 256 MB stick.

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  1. Jens Heidrich says:
    #1 2005-05-16 21:19 (Reply)

    Very nice! Need some *x-OS on a CF-Card or similar. Why not grml? Do you think to include a flash-filesystem to reduce the write-counts or some other design to not to use the flash-memory too much or still be readonly like a cd. Thank in advance.

  2. mika says:
    #1.1 2005-05-16 21:33 (Reply)

    grml on a CF-Card should be possible at least when I have a usb-stick-ISO, yes. :-) '/' is mounted with noatime and 'quasi-readonly'. Because the unionfs-target, /home and /tmp are in the ramdisk this should be very CF-card-friendly. ;) If you have any other ideas how to improve the CF-Card-setup please contact me.


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