+++ Kalle Vahlman [2012-02-21 11:06 +0200]: > 2012/2/21 Amit Kucheria <amit.kuche...@linaro.org> > > > > > Well minimal is all I care... not buildroot. But I would expect it to > > > be < 20M in size. Does that make sense.... or am i speaking gibberish > > > :-) ? > > > > > > > Doesn't the nano flavour take care of this? > > Nano rootfs is 33M compressed tarball which expands to 95M. > > That's "small", not "embedded" ;)
quite. You can get a debian-based distro down to about 56MB uncompressed: http://www.emdebian.org/grip/index.html (using the grip bloat-removal tools), or 90Mb without (corresponds to 'nano'). To go smaller you need to scrap the upgradable-in-place aspect. In the past we made emdebian crush which around 20Mb, using a busybox base and a great deal of package modification. So it is possible to make a debian-based image this small, but it is not a sustainable thing without changes in Debian/Ubuntu to support a busybox base. Nobody is really working on this because there are so many other ways to achieve an image of this size which, frankly, make more sense. Wookey -- Principal hats: Linaro, Emdebian, Wookware, Balloonboard, ARM http://wookware.org/ _______________________________________________ linaro-dev mailing list linaro-dev@lists.linaro.org http://lists.linaro.org/mailman/listinfo/linaro-dev
