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requesting how-to, slitaz for headless server / appliance, install on disk
  • bduttabdutta October 2010
    Hi,

    Tried out Slitaz Low-Mem on Virtualbox on a PC running 1.6GHz Processor, by allocating 128MB RAM to the virtual machine, and was amazed by what this thing could do. I'd tried other distros, most of which refused to even be installed for anything less than 512MB, and if installed, were really sluggish.

    Wondering however, if someone has attempted using slightly modified slitaz for headless, alliance, server-oriented usage, where there is no need of the desktop / gui-apps, or Xwin gui of any kind (thereby reducing RAM and disk footprint even further). So installation / management is done via command-line tools alone.

    Also, would like to know if it is possible to "install (on harddisk)" from the LowMem LiveFS iso image ?

    My ultimate aim is to create a very lean, mean and fast Amazon EC2 AMI image, or similar cloud-hosted images. My main aim is to reduce RAM foot print to a bare minimum.

    Any help / pointers appreciated.

    regards,
    BD
  • Trixar_zaTrixar_za October 2010
    Are you asking if you can you install it just from command line without the GUI? If so, then yes. You can just take the 8mb big slitaz-base image (http://www.slitaz.org/en/get/flavors.html), boot it and install it via the slitaz-installer command. Defaults are always username tux with password for normal account and username root and password root for the root account - this can be changed during installation btw.

    Here's a tutorial on how to do it on youtube if your interested:


    Kris did quite a few of those tutorials too. One for Text-Mode (CLI) and one for GUI based. I prefered the Text-Mode tutorials myself :P

    EDIT: Actually, you can probably also customise slitaz with the packages you want (and removing the ones you don't) with http://pizza.slitaz.org
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