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  • From: James Miller <jamtat AT mailsnare.net>
  • To: baslinux AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [BL] read-only filesystem and wrong prompt
  • Date: Fri, 5 May 2006 17:05:13 -0500 (CDT)

On Fri, 5 May 2006, sindi keesan wrote:

I used Steven's send/receive routines on individual directories (so as not
to copy over a few things I did not want on the laptop) and then deleted
/usr/src, compilers, anything to do with sound or scsi or scanners, Xvesa,
and some miscellany. This reduced it from 380MB to 180MB even with two
versions each of Opera, links2, and lynx, and a large ghostscript and
netpbm, and Abiword and much more.

I also deleted a file called 'magic' which said it was needed to play
games.

I seem to have overdone it, as usual.

I don't have any solution for the problems you mention, but I have what might be some helpful advice for the future. Maybe a better way to do this would have been to copy over everything, then go through and see what seems to you extraneous and add to the beginning of the file or directory name del== or something similarly unique. Then try running the system. If things don't work, you can go through and selectively remove the del== prefix until you find out what's interfering with normal operation. Re-add the del== prefix to anything you may have removed it from that seems to not be interfering and see how the system runs. Once you're sure the system is behaving normally, go through and delete everything with the del== prefix: surely this deletion process could be easily automated.

James




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