CrunchBang in <2Gb?

Welcome to the forums jgage!

With only 2gb, I personally would do a minimal netinstall and add only what I needed. A Debian netinstall plus openbox, firefox, etc. would give you a similar result to #!, minus any "extras" you don't need. (Alternately, I would use a very small distro such as SliTaz, Puppy, TinyCore, etc. if I needed a little space left over for storage.)

Several contributors to these forums have had good luck with Debian netinstalls; if you poke around a bit, you'll find success stories.

http://crunchbanglinux.org/forums/topic … tall-help/

#! takes +3 gb after it is installed.

You can hack the livecd version to install the livecd on disk.
Check :
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions … hd-647203/

Last edited by IsTI37 (2010-07-29 20:16:14)

with only 2GB of disk you may want to try slitaz
it requires less resources than #! and you can customise it so that it looks very similar (with tint)

I use both, they are different approach to similar problems

Ubuntu Minimal-CD then Crunchbang Lite install script?

What we need is a "crunchbang-base" install script, sort of like the kde-base meta package.

It may be smart to do something like build a source based system and instead of using the more popular -O2 option or -O3 options to compile, set every program to compile with -Os which should optimize all the programs for size, rather than speed. Just make sure that the source itself isn't kept around, much like apt stores many .deb files it doesn't need to most source based distros store the source they've downloaded so that you can recompile later, but on a size limited system that isn't really the behavior you want.

Or just use Puppy or one of the other tiny distros, for a time I had puppy on a 512mb memory stick so it I know it works alright in 2gb.