Eric Laforest typeth: >> with no swap partition and a bare bones linux runtime > Good. But in the interest of system stability should memory become > scarce, I would reccommend a small swap file. Thanks for that tip. I was worried about falling off the edge of the earth I mean RAM limitations ... [installing packages on slackware w/o rpm package manager] > ../configure <options you want/need> > make install <snip> > ...but this requires a compiler.... Yes, and herein lies another one of those tradeoffs. The C libraries for linux are huge! I initially wanted to have the compiler and all of the necessary libs to intall packages, but it will consume almost as much disk space as my whole OS runtime environment! Here's what I'm thinking. First of all I don't want to be tweaking the OS on a daily basis, I want a core set of functions working, and once they are working I want to leave them alone. Also, most of my development will be on Java (not C/C++) or microcontrollers so I don't need all of the GNU C/C++ libs most of the time. I think I have a good system for this though, and the PCMCIA adapter that comes with the IBM microdrive helps. What I will do is always have a full blown slackware distribution installed on my laptop drive. Most of the time the laptop drive won't be attached, but if I need to compile a new kernel or install new packages, I remove the microdrive from the CF socket, boot from the large distro on the laptop drive, then mount the microdrive in the PCMCIA slot. Any and all system compiling will be done on the laptop drive, and only the binary executables and support libs will be copied onto the the microdrive. This leaves me with a very small runtime OS on the microdrive, yet I still have all of my dev tools, which are primarily trusty ole VI, shell scripts, javac, and make tools. This also makes for a really easy way to back up my entire system from the microdrive to the laptop drive. -- Doug -- Subscription/unsubscription/info requests: send e-mail with subject of "subscribe", "unsubscribe", or "info" toWear-Hard Mailing List Archive (searchable): http://wearables.blu.org please, Please, *PLEASE* don't subscribe through a forward/false domain
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