* - Tong - mlist4suntong@yahoo.com [20070427 15:15]:
On Sun, 22 Apr 2007 12:17:17 +0200, Michael Prokop wrote:
So it would become:
| config.d => restore all tbz. files from directory /cdrom/config.d/
Thinking into the future, after this is done, if I want to exclude the /var/lib/dpkg/ from the CD and put it as /cdrom/config.d/00var.lib.dpkg.tbz, is it a good idea?
No.
The reason that I want to do it is that, the /var/lib/dpkg/ directory alone is about 80~90M, which is rather expensive for the 50M grml-small. However, if I do that, I am worry about the memory limitation, because grml don't mount any swap partitions by default, what if I need to run such configured grml on a 128M memory PC?
Mainly only overlay files (deriving from unionfs-feature) affect memory usage (unless you use the toram feature of course), so as long as you don't touch/modify the files it does not hurt.
grml-small works with >=32 MB of RAM, though 128M or more are recommended of course.
regards, -mika-