Re: [Devil-linux-develop] Different release download options.

[Heiko Z. <hz...@pr...>]

On 10/07/2003 05:09:27 PM Bruce Smith wrote:
>> > We probably should (right now) add the feature of loading differen=
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>> > "profiles" or "preconfigured options" to the menuconfig.
>> > This way we could make sure, it's every time the same and we dont'=

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>> > anything.
>>
>> Yes, except we need to create those profiles first ...
>>
>> I just got done removing most of the stuff that is not useful for a
>> firewall (servers, compilers, email, ...) and am running a fresh
>compile
>> to see the size of the resulting ISO.
>>
>> I'll be interesting to see how small of a USB stick is required for =
a
>> firewall like this.  Getting it under 256MB shouldn't be a problem.
>> Under 128MB would be great, but I'm not real hopeful.
>
>Wow, if I did the math right, this is just under 128MB!!!  :-)

Until the next DL release ;-)

>-rw-r--r--    1 root     root     133332992 Oct  7 15:51 bootcd.iso
>
>My .config file is attached if you want to see my selections.

For a pure firewall, you could reduce it even more.
I.e. No man pages and no documentation.
I'm pretty sure you can also remove some more binaries.

cya
  Heiko
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