Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2217 mails)

[Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sep 27 2007 12:19, CyberOrg wrote:
>
>> seems to have a similar method with a squashfs image. We usually boot
>> the diskless client and run one app all the time. So accessing the
>> server is no issue. Out of curiosity, how small could the image be? On
>> thinstation, with a graphic desktop, our image is < 8 MB. I would love
>> to use suse as the base as I am more familiar with it than with
>> thinstation.
>
>That sure is awesome(< 8 MB) we would love your contribution in
>trimming down our image which is currently 160MB squashfs. Although it
>could be reduced, we are trying to get everything working well first,
>reducing the size is not very high on our priorities.

-rw-r--r--  1 root root 3020209 Sep  8 21:06 initrd-2.6.22.3-ccj53_lh-default.cpio.gz
-rw-r--r--  1 root root 1612192 Aug 29 19:47 vmlinuz-2.6.22.3-ccj53-default

Nothing special really. Just tweak mkinitrd so much that it
sets up an aufs, which is really just a few kilobytes extra
compared to the regular initrds mkinitrd produces.
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