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On Mon, 17 Nov 2008 19:24:38 +0000 Neil Williams wrote: > On Sat, 15 Nov 2008 18:16:03 +0000 > "Steve Lee" <steve@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > why 'need'? > > Can't you just ignore the extra? > > How can I promote a small distribution that is targetted at devices > that have less than 32Mb of total storage, by giving out 1Gb media???? > > Some devices will need the USB stick formatted with filesystems that > are only sane on small flash storage (and get incredibly wasteful over > 128Mb) because the contents of the stick need to be addressable from > the bootloader. Many bootloaders have extremely limited opinions of > what kind of filesystems it can boot. VFAT isn't a safe choice either. > > 1Gb is only suitable as a multi-architecture installer but as each > installer is less than 25Mb and each may require different > filesystems, it probably isn't worth doing. > > It just doesn't add up - except for the larger devices that can use > "normal" bootloaders like grub and which don't need this kind of > support in the first place. > ?x32Mb partition(s) with Emdebian for each arch you want. Rest of the storage space used for other utilities and documentation? Or even left as unpartitioned space. Just because the device has more than 32Mb available doesn't mean it isn't useful, even for what you're proposing Neil. Grant. -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html