DSL Ideas and Suggestions :: **official IBLS--Itty Bitty Linux Server thread**
Plus..with the sparked up intrerest in creating a "light" server, maybe someone could then start working on the other GP (general purpose) server..such as Samba, (...insert service here) distro that everyone is hoping for, a server with MyDSL plugins would rock!
Brian AwPhuch
Quote (ico2 @ June 02 2005,09:50)
64mb, with working LAMP, i am going to try out cramfs to see if i can make it any smaller.
If you are looking for an alternative filesystem with higher compression you might want to investigate squashfs. However I doubt there would be any significant space saving and given the amount of effort a change would require I would suggest sticking with cloop.
With cloop make sure you are using the -b option with create_compressed_fs to enable the highest compression level - this will shave off a few megabytes.Why not use webmin as the web interface? Is it too big?
It seems like there is no reason for reinventing the wheel...ok, a few things to say.
firstly i now have a 53mb iso with apache and php working flawlessly and mysql nearly working, this can be reduced to about 47 easily. secondly: webmin is very big indeed (or so it seemed (might have to check again)) i think it also has a gtk2 dep.
probably some more stuff i forgot, but for now thats it.ok, trying to compress the knoppix image further with -b (gawd it is slow), also seeing if i can cut down webmin enough to go in it.Next Page...
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