hey guys, Happy 4th of July!
I want to install the most minimalistic system possible either in a partition or in a chroot (folder residing in existing system)
basically I need just slapt-get and networking to begin with.
how to do this from either Slackware CD or from a Salix CD?
I do not want make, or other unneeded stuff for now.
thanks
Minimum required for chroot install?
Re: Minimum required for chroot install?
There is no easy way to install the most minimalist system possible with salix. The most minimalist you can get is the core installation, but that also gives you a complete development environment, internationalization support through glibc and a few other stuff. You could start with a salix iso, remove all packages from the basic and full directories and then also remove all packages from the core directory you don't think you need.
I remember there are a couple of threads in the linuxquestions forums about installing the most minimalist slackware possible. Those apply to salix as well of course. If you need slapt-get, you'll have to install all it's dependencies too of course.
I remember there are a couple of threads in the linuxquestions forums about installing the most minimalist slackware possible. Those apply to salix as well of course. If you need slapt-get, you'll have to install all it's dependencies too of course.
Re: Minimum required for chroot install?
If you don't want to pull slapt-get dependencies in and don't want to rebuild it statically, which could require you to rebuild some deps too, you can run the tool statifier on your slapt-get binary to acquire a static binary. It works as long as you're not trying to run the 32-bit version on a 64-bit kernel.
You could also use spkg to batch install a bunch of packages you previously downloaded, e.g. through slapt-get. spkg offers a --root option for that purpose.
You could also use spkg to batch install a bunch of packages you previously downloaded, e.g. through slapt-get. spkg offers a --root option for that purpose.