[9fans] tiny horrible xen status

[ron minnich]

Well, it *was* tiny. It was 67 MB. Then I added FireFox
[root@q xentest]# du -s *
4696 bin
8168 boot
1128 bzImage
220 dev
8400 drawterm
720 etc
0 halt
4 init.deb
61224 lib
16 lost+found
4 mnt
4 proc
4 README
4928 sbin
84 scripts
4 sys
8 tmp
119856 usr
44 var

sigh. Also, the default is to boot as as term. I have been trying to
get a small fossil root image on there, but can't get it to fit in
under a CD size (660MB). I need to have a small image that can serve
as a cpu/auth server (since you have to drawterm in). Any ideas?

thanks

ron

[Richard Miller]

> I need to have a small image that can serve
> as a cpu/auth server (since you have to drawterm in). Any ideas?

It doesn't take many files just to run as an authomous cpu/auth
server - my kfs for the ipEngine is less than 4MB (before compression).
The question is what you want to do once you've drawtermed in.

If you want something approaching a complete distribution, you can look
for large and little-used bits to prune away; or try a compressed
partition (e.g. paqfs).