Re: Linux Y2K problems ! => small linux ?

From: Hamish Moffatt (terhi.victor@logonet.com)
Date: Wed Jan 05 2000 - 23:15:55 EET

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    On Tue, Jan 04, 2000 at 08:28:44PM -0800, Niall Parker wrote:
    > Once upon a time, I could get a fair bit of functionality onto a single
    > single floppy, making it practical to build radio routers/terminals without
    > harddrives and minimal (< 8MB) RAM. When I looked at updating the cramdisks
    > I've been using, I was stumped by the considerable increase in the size of
    > the kernel generally and libc in particular ... going from an older libc5
    > to glibc seems to need 5-6 times the memory !
    >
    > Any ideas on getting the current kernels and utils down in size ?

    No, sorry. But if they're just for home use, you can boot them over the
    network. My packet radio box runs 24x7 as an APRS server, and it's
    completely diskless. Works very well. No good for remote installations
    of course.

    Hamish 

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