Juergen Fiedler schrieb:
I'm playing around with adding things to grml_small (being that stipping the big one down seems rather intimidating)
Stripping the big one down works fairly well (in my opinion better than adding things to grml_small because you might add newer/untested versions accidentally) and even without network connection.
Just take dpkg --get-selections, and set everything to purge which is not listed in the grml-small-selections file. Keep the following packages as well (since packages on grml-small are named differently for these):
linux-image-2.6.18-grml install grml-policyrcd install locales install unionfs-modules-2.6.18-grml install unionfs-tools install unionfs-utils install policyrcd-script-zg2 install
Run apt-get dselect-upgrade and after some time you will have a smaller system. Keep more packages to get a bigger cd image.
From one of my scripts for a similar purpose:
export LANG=C export LC_MESSAGES= mv /etc/apt/sources.list{,-moved} touch /etc/apt/sources.list apt-get update dpkg --get-selections | sed s/install$/purge/ | dpkg --set-selections dpkg --set-selections <grml-small-0.3-selections dpkg --set-selections <my-selections apt-get -y dselect-upgrade apt-get -f install apt-get dselect-upgrade
Michael