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We need to provision bare metal machines with custom node images. The bare metal machine provider has an API for booting the machine via iPXE. But no other APIs exist to provision a custom image. ...
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Looking for WRITTABLE resque/recovery type LINUX distro for USB flash drive under 8GB installed. Current primary usage scenario: write and troubleshoot initramfs script for non-standard boot process (...
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I am in search of a Linux "GUI" distro which also has python the distro must be under these criterion: 1. Be able to run on Virtual Box 2. ISO under 250mb 3. Total OS disk space: below 2.5gb ...
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I'm looking for a guide on how to manually install Linux... without the classic assisted setup... just by copying files from a source to a target media... and configuring the minimum required ...
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I'm trying to see the process of redistributing a linux distribution. I was wondering if all the components are compiled with the kernel or kernel is seperated from components like is Desktop Manager ...
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I have these thin clients that are not in use I think they’d do perfect for a security camera video wall—just feed them an RTSP/RTMP URL and be done, GUI not needed. I’ve been lazily looking for ...
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I usually install GRUB2 on its own partition. This is because I consider all my OSs to be peers. No one of them should own the boot loader. Any one OS can be removed and the others would still boot....
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I'm building a small host at home that will host one tiny interactive website to about 10 people. I am looking for the most efficient GNU/Linux OS to do this on. The OS has to be small, both in terms ...
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I recently tried to install OpenBSD to my Soekris net4526, but the 64MB onboard storage is too small. Is there any way to make OpenBSD smaller, because even the smallest configuration (bsd and baseXX....
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I am using DBAN to wipe some of our hard drives, but I want to speed up and simplify the process. Is it possible to modify the files in a manner that the 'autonuke' process runs automatically when ...
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I've looked at a lot of topics that look like what I'm looking for but aren't quite what I want. To give you some context, my ultimate goal is to have a Vagrant box that can compile some C code and ...
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I am running Windows and I don't have a very big SSD. I want to use Linux in a VM to compile GIMP but I want to keep the VM as small as possible. What is the smallest distro you can use to compile ...
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I am building a specific device and I would like to know what Linux based small distribution would be good when I would choose the put-Linux-on-the-ROM route, so, that the system is not possible to ...
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Is it possible for a slackware distro to be 9 Mb in size, have /bin /dev /var /proc /sys directories completely empty, and have only following content in the rest of the directories: /proc /sbin /sys /...
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I'm starting a project where all I really want is a shell with apt-get or something similar. I've searched for small distros, and there are plenty, but I don't need any GUI other than command line. ...
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