Subject: Re: IA-1 "refurbished" units
To: Andrew Gillham <gillham@vaultron.com>
From: Dave Huang <khym@azeotrope.org>
List: port-i386
Date: 12/16/2001 12:11:29
On Sun, 16 Dec 2001, Andrew Gillham wrote:
> Sounds like there wasn't, which is cool. The fact that you can boot the
> IA-1 from CF is very nice, much better than the IOpener. If you rebuild
> /bin/* and /sbin/* dynamically you can save quite a bit of space, as long
> as you have / and /usr on the same filesystem.
Ah, good idea... I'll try that out :)
> I have been able to get a basic Xserver, configured for a remote xfs,
> loaded in the 16MB of flash on my IOpener. With an 80MB CF, I would
> think you could add fonts and a browser, provided you go through by
> hand and remove unneeded binaries.
I guess my problem is that I don't know what files are required for X...
currently, my /usr/X11R6 is 27931K, 9922K of which are fonts. I do
have GTK+ installed, but I think I deleted everything except libgdk.so*
and libgtk.so*. /usr/X11R6/lib/modules and /usr/X11R6/lib/X11 seem to be
where the bulk of the files are...
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