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Hello all,
I created small live cd based on Arch init scripts. Here are some points:
* It's contains only console tools, no X stuff.
* Very small, iso have only 29 MB
* Contains Arch install script, you can make ftp install
* Full kernel from Arch (takes 17 MB, system takes only 12 MB ), hwdetect is used
* Based on uclibc (small, but binary incompatible)
* Many utils are supplied by busybox
* Big set of utils: mc, centericq, bashburn, music player ...
* Links web browser with framebuffer support (can display images)
* No wireless,ppp support yet
Here is list of packages: alsa-utils, archsetup, bashburn, bastet, cdrdao, cdrtools, centericq, curl, dialog, dosfstools, dvd+rw-tools, eject, enigma, ettercap, ext2resize, fbi, flac, grub, htop, iptables, jfsutils, lame, lilo, links, mc, mime-types, moc, mpg123, mutt, netcat, nmap, normalize, ntfsprogs, openssh, openssl, reiserfsprogs, rsync, screen, snarf, speex, squashfs-tools, tcpdump, vorbis-tools, vsftpd, xfsprogs + some libs
You can download iso at: http://kotek.net/minimax/livecd.iso
MD5: 624cc78f0f1326e6ff153e32ca0b1dcc
There are some messages during booting about /dev/ram0 mounting, ignore it.
Please test it and report possible bugs.
Thanx
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You'll be adding wireless then? I'd be interested when that happens.
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yes, I will add some patches + ndiswrapper
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WOW! Great job with this micro live cd.
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with modifications this would work awesomely on a 32mb flash drive
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I like this a lot. I'm posting from it right now, via qemu!
Re wireless, will you be able to squeeze wlan-ng in?
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wlan-ng ? I dont know this soft. Actually I don't know anythink about wifi...
But home page looks reasonable. I'll see...
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There are already PKGBUILDs for nearly all the wireless drivers out there.
Contact z4ziggy[at]user-contributions[dot]org
He's got PKGBUILDS for them all, and all setup to go with a liveCD.
iphitus
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I agree with iphitus ,,,, it would make a great base for skinny archie ....
Mr Green
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Reading this very interesting post, I have been tempted to try links with the framebuffer driver (above mentioned). What an awesome browser!!! I really think that links should be compiled by default with --enable-graphics --with-fb also in arch, thus a lot of people would not install X anymore in their desktop system:)
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Awesome project; already used it to recover a mysql database from an old (last time anything was updated was about 2001) freebsd server that isn't allowed to connect to the campus network anymore... it was actually rootkit'ed. When I tried to use knoppix on it, the boot up took so long that I was able to stare at the screen for ten minutes, look for another liveCD, find minimax in the forums, download it, and burn it all before the boot-up had complete. Conversely, boot-up took ~4 minutes with minimax.
So what image size are you aiming for with the project; like are you going for 32mb flash drive, a 50mb business card cd, or something else?
Just to let you know, the links to arch are broken on your site.
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