Re: Stretch ARM installation RAM and Flash size

2019-01-14 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Tue, Jan 15, 2019 at 07:53:34AM +1100, hh h wrote: > "Sure. If I had a heavily restricted system, I would look at LEDE > a.k.a. OpenWRT." > > That'll be my last resource, it is so easy to build my source code in > Debian than in OpenWRT which wrapped the native Linux build system > into its own

Re: Stretch ARM installation RAM and Flash size

2019-01-14 Thread hh h
"Sure. If I had a heavily restricted system, I would look at LEDE a.k.a. OpenWRT." That'll be my last resource, it is so easy to build my source code in Debian than in OpenWRT which wrapped the native Linux build system into its own build system, someone might like it, but I would prefer an open e

Re: Stretch ARM installation RAM and Flash size

2019-01-14 Thread W. Martin Borgert
Quoting lsore...@csclub.uwaterloo.ca: On Mon, Jan 14, 2019 at 07:26:52PM +0100, W. Martin Borgert wrote: We're working on an embedded system, which I'm just upgrading to buster. It eats ~ 180..190 MiB. We dpkg-exclude /usr/share/doc/ and some more, which are not needed there. Also, we use not t

Re: Stretch ARM installation RAM and Flash size

2019-01-14 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Mon, Jan 14, 2019 at 07:26:52PM +0100, W. Martin Borgert wrote: > We're working on an embedded system, which I'm just upgrading to buster. > It eats ~ 180..190 MiB. We dpkg-exclude /usr/share/doc/ and some more, > which are not needed there. > > Also, we use not the official Debian archive with

Re: Stretch ARM installation RAM and Flash size

2019-01-14 Thread Stefan Monnier
>> Thanks Joonas. It is going to run the C++ program on NXP i.MX-6ULZ >> ARMv7, the application is running on about 5MB RAM, I think RAM >> looks fine. The boost and other C++ system libraries about 6 MB, the >> program self is not too large, about 2 MB libraries and 500 KB binary >> application,

Re: Stretch ARM installation RAM and Flash size

2019-01-14 Thread Matthias Urlichs
Hi, > Even running apt-get update to > pull the list of available packages easily grabs 40MB disk space in > my experience. Nobody needs /var/cache/apt, /var/lib/{apt|dpkg}, or /usr/share/man on a "real" embedded system. On mine, I mount these directories via NFS or plug in an USB stick with them,

Re: Stretch ARM installation RAM and Flash size

2019-01-14 Thread W. Martin Borgert
Quoting lsore...@csclub.uwaterloo.ca: I would be impressed by a Debian install in less than 250MB storage space. It would have to be rather minimal. Even running apt-get update to pull the list of available packages easily grabs 40MB disk space in my experience. We're working on an embedded sy

Re: Stretch ARM installation RAM and Flash size

2019-01-14 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Sat, Jan 12, 2019 at 09:06:04PM +1100, hh h wrote: > Thanks Joonas. It is going to run the C++ program on NXP i.MX-6ULZ > ARMv7, the application is running on about 5MB RAM, I think RAM > looks fine. The boost and other C++ system libraries about 6 MB, the > program self is not too large, abou