[ltp] Mandriva on a 1GB CF card. (was: X22 GL performance)

[Richard Neill]

Bert Haskins wrote:
> 
>> P.S. You mentioned that your X22 has no HDD - as an idea, why not try 
>> a CF<->notebookIDE adaptor ($5 on ebay) and a 1GB CF card. Lower 
>> power, and completely silent...you can turn it into a media center.  
>> You can (just!) get KDE + Amarok + MythTV + Firefox into a GB.
> 
> 
> Thanks very much for this tip, it is something that I've been looking 
> for for a long time.

Some more info, if it will help:

1)As far as I can tell, Mandriva is the only distro that will actually 
allow you to install in only 1GB. All the others (I tried  fedora, suse, 
ubuntu) will crash out in the middle of the install, due to lack of disk 
space. Even with Mandriva, it's a bit cramped, and I'd recommend a 2GB 
card.

You could try damnsmalllinux, which fits in 80MB, but you won't get 
KDE/Amarok.


2)To get mandriva installed:
    a)Run the installer, unselect all the package options. You'll still 
get a basic intall with X, drakxtools and urpmi. Recommend you also 
install icewm, but not KDE yet.

    b)Go to easyurpmi.org, and add sources for all the media. Use the 
compressed media information to save space. I recommend using the 
community rather than official mirror. Then, urpmi --auto-select.

    c)Kill off system services (eg syslog, mDNSresponder) that are 
unwanted. Use the GUI tools in Mandriva config center to get the system 
completely set up.

   d)Now, use urpme and rpm -qa to uninstall everything possible. You 
will also lose the MCC system, because it has dependencies on everything 
  you don't want, like sane,cups... and adds about 300 MB !
You'll loose rpmdrake, but can keep urpmi.

   e)Use urpmi_rpm-find-leaves to remove any unneeded libraries. (a leaf 
is a package which nothing else depends ON).

  f)Now install what you want. You can get KDE (not all of it!) + 
konsole + konqueror + firefox + amarok + mythtv + xmms installed.

  g)www.seerofsouls.com has newer RPMs for some things eg amarok.


Hope that helps,

Richard