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Small Debian installs
Small Debian installs
Posted Oct 7, 2006 20:23 UTC (Sat) by kmself (subscriber, #11565)In reply to: Seven Linux distros fight over one old ThinkPad (DesktopLinux.com) by mikov
Parent article: Seven Linux distros fight over one old ThinkPad (DesktopLinux.com)
120 MB is pretty good, and that's about what I get, with this package list or something close to it (pretty much debootstrap + vim, screen, and w3m and a few other tools).
Martin Krafft's The Debian System suggests that the smallest Debian install which could be considered a "real" Linux system is about 89 MB. Such an installation would likely not be particularly upgradeable: package lists and archives are large, I tend to allow 1-2 GB for /var just for that reason, and you'd likely run out of disk space with a highly constrained install.
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