> >I am currious if it is possible to load a minimal Linux installation,
> >without the X-Windows server, and use VNC graphically.
Yes, it is... the installation can be as minimal as fitting on
a single 3 1/2 1.44MB floppy.
> >I could try it but I thought it would be preferable to see if this is
> >even possible before spending any time on this issue.
There is a VNC viewer for SVGA Linux libraries. I put it together with the
right libraries on a packadge for LRP (Linux Router Project - a project
for making routers with Linux on a floppy). So, you can use a VNC client
even on a system with other operating system than Linux installed whithout
making any chabnges to it... just booting from a floppy.
> Depends what you mean by small? <300Mb Yes. Fit on a floppy with X, no way.
Well... you also could go the muLinux way. muLinux offers a complete Linux
system on 1 to 7 floppies. Just pick up the BOOT floppy and the X add-on
and there you go. You get Linux with X on less than 5 MB of installation.
> >My goal is to have as little a distribution as possible with only the
> >necessary server services loaded (SSH, MAIL, VNC) and requiring only a
> >small amount of RAM (let's say 16MB) but naturally without the XFree86
Cool. I like small distributions. Have a look at my site
http://www.ugr.es/~ama/compro/ where I keep links to such small beauties.
> Why X? Why not use something like Webmin and admin with a web browser,
Why not X? When you can get it down to very few MBs and its a standard
protocol in UNIX and is so cool... why not have it? :)
> >I heard of very minimal implementation of VNC and even some discussion
> >about an embedded version. This is why I am looking into this.
SVNCviewer is your friend. Look at http://www.ugr.es/~ama/compro/svncv/
Good luck.
Greetings,
Angel
PS. Please, let me know if you do something different. Mainly if you end
up with a tiny Linux distro, which I would love to see.
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