Small footprint linux

[Mark Komarinski]

On Mon, Jun 23, 2003 at 09:04:15AM -0400, brian wrote:
> For a personal project I'm working on, I'd like to get a "small
> footprint" linux install with a rudimentary window manager and simple
> Ethernet support.  By small footprint, I mean I'd like to keep it under
> 32MB.  Anybody have any experience with something like this?  Pointers
> on where to start looking/downloading?

I keep getting flashbacks of running Windows and Linux off a 40M HDD.

Seriously though, you have a few options available to you:

1)  Get a boot-off-CD distro (assuming the hardware includes a CD)
2)  Get a boot-off-ethernet distro like LTSP (assuming you have access to
a network)
3)  Skip Linux on favor of QNX and get the 1.44MB distro that includes a
windowing system (not X) and TCP/IP stack.

Getting Linux plus X plus a TCP/IP stack in 32M is pretty tough - you 
can't even do it on the Zaurus.

-Mark
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