[Asterisk-Users] Absolute Minimum Installation Packages

[Andrew Kohlsmith]

> Using this technique I've got the bare essentials from a Mandrake Cooker
> installation onto an old 340Mb disk. It's now integrated into the
> network and scp, ssh are working. Today's exercise is to set up a web
> configuration server. Total space used so far is 31466 1K blocks. This
> could possibly be reduced by building Busybox and a bit more pruning.

While I hold no small space record, I have yours beat.  :-)
- 2.4.17 kernel
- Super FreeS/WAN
- ssh/scp
- full networking including tcpdump
- Perl 5.8.0 + enough for Frontier::RPC2
- iptables
- iproute2
- grub

It all fits into a 9MB partition on a CompactFlash card.  Add another 1M 
partition for configuration and there's my firewall package.  Perl's used 
to run a small web server and XMLRPC server for configuration.  Without 
Perl it'd fit on a couple of extended-format (1.8M) floppies.

That's all LFS, BusyBox and ulibc.  I don't think those particular features 
get much smaller.  :-)

Regards,
Andrew