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[Lee Forrest <lforrestster AT gmail.com>]

http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/baslinux/bl2/bas-add.htm

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Adding a C compiler to BasicLinux This requires a minimum of five
packages (which fill 120mb of HD space). Most of this space is
filled by the glibc2 library, which is much larger than the old
libc5 library (used in BasicLinux 1.8).

installpkg binutils.tgz     ##  d1
installpkg egcs.tgz         ##  d1
installpkg glibc.tgz        ##  d1
installpkg gmake.tgzd1      ##  d1
installpkg linuxinc.tgz     ##  d1


To compile a Linux kernel, two further packages are required
(which fill an additional 74mb of HD space). The first is the
kernel source and the second is an assember to make the boot
sector.

installpkg lx2216.tgz     ##  k1
installpkg bin86.tgz      ##  d1

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So. If that's the minimum libraries needed to compile apps and
the kernel, then that's the minimum libraries needed to make BL
fully functional, right?

Can any of that be discarded? Do you need all the binutils,
for example? All of glibc2?

120 + 74 = 194MB. That's a _lot_!

My BL3 at this point is only 7.6MB!!!

Is a tiny-linux a pipe dream?

Of course, my debian, rather small by today's standards,
is about 1200MB.

Looks like maybe 300MB is a realistic ceiling. There are quite
a few apps I plan on adding.

A hundred floppies, compressed...

Lee