From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1OTzzg-0008Ux-2c for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 30 Jun 2010 16:18:36 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 34ED61C0FB; Wed, 30 Jun 2010 16:18:13 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-pw0-f53.google.com (mail-pw0-f53.google.com [209.85.160.53]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 058DC1C0FB for ; Wed, 30 Jun 2010 16:18:12 +0000 (UTC) Received: by pwj9 with SMTP id 9so359681pwj.40 for ; Wed, 30 Jun 2010 09:18:12 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from :user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references:in-reply-to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=cwsel1jftkUqruFB4Y8w2HoVQ+cqwem5rp4Shhwotn4=; b=Ycnlf+7RWUMS43d5ytrQkTvDsGVEs68wOaRIEFuU1SQTd6J62GvxmUDT9tEOwYroLi DDbMIvtlSn+AfsAdMsqzaznfp3KG+Rd+4dICM9OPcJAKyjGuAB2I0/RFtDJrCm5Ab5D/ 3SYN9Z07CzxxF1LiZYlq8B6C3jckwpMvbLoP8= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=psWPHG5W2NdwFxyvwVvh1wvfTMgrybuEiuW4YVG07csWdhzSJ9AXBXaTNhyQIqCKC2 5ikAxI2FqPLibJJbc7Z8HFXXb75JBnquho/M2zKE07eQdZjrf6cxjhr85meOhykM+MdK LhYvxyKqYRTy2N3UEY4NJBf+1tQS3Va7J4cTE= Received: by 10.115.114.21 with SMTP id r21mr10090294wam.132.1277914691970; Wed, 30 Jun 2010 09:18:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.1.2] (adsl-95-133-61.jan.bellsouth.net [98.95.133.61]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id m11sm168850ybn.4.2010.06.30.09.18.06 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Wed, 30 Jun 2010 09:18:08 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4C2B6E37.8040506@gmail.com> Date: Wed, 30 Jun 2010 11:17:59 -0500 From: Dale User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.1.10) Gecko/20100622 Gentoo/2.0.5 SeaMonkey/2.0.5 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Minimal Gentoo with X References: <4C2B4B47.9090603@gmx.ch> <4C2B5941.6090609@gmx.ch> <4C2B5A9C.5060609@gmail.com> <20100630164544.0b213cf9@zaphod.digimed.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <20100630164544.0b213cf9@zaphod.digimed.co.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: fa9b844d-ba5c-4239-8800-70b921acc989 X-Archives-Hash: 6112c5914f4cc4950b36537d2dfc5967 Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Wed, 30 Jun 2010 09:54:20 -0500, Dale wrote: > > >> Since space is a issue for you, you really only need the kernel sources >> for the kernel you are using. One could argue that if you have a well >> built kernel and don't plan to change it in the future, you could >> remove its sources too. I would save a copy of the config tho. >> > I'd certainly argue that. A single set of sources can take up more than > half a gigabyte after compilation. If you use make install to install the > kernel, it puts a backup of the config in /boot automatically. > > This is one of those questions that is like 'how much swap do I need'? It depends on your goals. With Gentoo, you can really slim down a lot of stuff. Disabled USE flags for unneeded things, remove packages that are not needed, clean out distfiles and binaries in *packages/All then disable buildpkg in make.conf. There is a lot of things that can be done to reduce the install. Heck, if they can put Gentoo on a guitar, it's got to be pretty small. I also like the post someone else made. Run it like a embedded system. That is really small from what I have read, or can be at least. Oh, I still do my kernel installs the manual way. I have a weird way of naming my kernels so that I know at a glance what is what. I also name the config the same as the kernels so that I know which config goes with which kernel. I have had to back up once or twice. Nothing like a net to catch us when something fails or falls. Dale :-) :-)