Re: [orca-list] Minimal Linux Version



If it was me, I'd try a "manual" install of debian. Run through the steps to install Debian by typing them in yourself. There a about eleventy gazillion web pages out there on how to do this but the main steps are:
1. Partition the drive
2. Mount the root partition and run debootstrap on it
3. chroot into the place you mounted the root partition
4. Install a kernel
5 Install/configure grub
6. Create certain essential files like /etc/fstab, /etc/resolv.conf and others.

You'll have to google for more details. This will leave you with an absolutely minimalist Debian install. It won't even have locate or finger. I am going to WAG it at 200Mb. It *might* fit into 250Mb.

On 12/16/21 21:52, K0LNY wrote:
Hi,
I'm working on an old computer for the Ham shack, and I found an iomega zip drive with a 250 mb disk. I was wondering if anyone knows of a minimal Linux, preferably Debian based, that would fit on that 250 zip drive, and I could install Speakup or Orca onto it.
I was looking at Puppy Linux, but there are so many of those to choose from.
I don't know if a server version would fit on 250 mb.
Thanks.
Glenn

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