Drew Broadley wrote:
I'm sure soekris pc's aren'ts that much more powerful then 486's .. and they have how many Mb RAM ? .. oh and they run on how many Mb FlashCards ?
If you want to see minimal linux installs, ask any soekris biscuit board owner about theirs..
The Soekris machines we use here have 64MB of Memory, and we use 64MB Flashcards. They are AMD Elan's (486ish) running at 133Mhz. They run a custom distribution which we developed based very loosely on Debian. The flash cards (IIRC) are only about 50% full. Most of the slimming came from using busybox for almost everything, and stripping the 90MB Glibc down (Glibc itself is ~1MB, but the Locale/zoneinfo/etc files total about 90MB) While it took quite some effort to strip down Linux for these machines, I wouldn't expect a standard distribution to run on them. A Soekris doesn't have a VGA display, nor a keyboard/mouse (it's serial console only). Because they are running off flash, we make considerable effort to keep the file system mounted readonly at all times. You can see a Soekris here: http://www.crc.net.nz/gallery/rch_install/DSC02841