Arch Linux

tritron4

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Registered: 2012-04-14

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tiny arch linux

I have few wyse terminals with 128mb hard drives is there tiny arch that will fit on it along with asterisk or better yet freepbx

drcouzelis

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From: Connecticut, USA

Registered: 2009-11-09

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Re: tiny arch linux

A quick search on the forums seems to suggest that an extremely minimal Arch Linux installation is still quite a bit bigger than 128 MB.

So, you might be able to get Arch Linux to work on that computer, but no, there isn't a tiny Arch Linux that's designed to be able to do so.

fiddlinmacx

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Registered: 2011-03-02

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Re: tiny arch linux

You might want to look into Puppy Linux or something like that. Check distrowatch.com

Awebb

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Registered: 2010-05-06

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Re: tiny arch linux

Tiny Core Linux.

Cdh

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Registered: 2009-02-03

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Re: tiny arch linux

A quick search on the forums seems to suggest that an extremely minimal Arch Linux installation is still quite a bit bigger than 128 MB.

So, you might be able to get Arch Linux to work on that computer, but no, there isn't a tiny Arch Linux that's designed to be able to do so.

You maybe even get it to boot, but if you try installing useful software you're gonna have a bad time.

 % pacman -Si linux | grep "Installed Size"
Installed Size : 58976.00 KiB
 % pacman -Si glibc | grep "Installed Size"
Installed Size : 37612.00 KiB
 % pacman -Si coreutils | grep "Installed Size"
Installed Size : 13704.00 KiB
 % du -h /boot/vmlinuz-linux /boot/initramfs-linux.img
3.3M    /boot/vmlinuz-linux
3.5M    /boot/initramfs-linux.img

Do they have sufficiently much RAM? If yes, you might have more luck with a diskless networkboot + the system on nfs shares on a server.

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Pres

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Registered: 2011-09-12

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Re: tiny arch linux

Slitaz would be my recommendation for something this minimal.

Trilby

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Registered: 2011-11-29

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Re: tiny arch linux

+1 on slitaz.

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