[Peeweelinux] PeeWee for Aranym VM

[Mark Meade]

Hi Martin,

Peewee Linux is a good choice for easily creating and customizing a bootable floppy.  It
can also be used to install to a hard drive, although it doesn't create "installation
disks".  As outlined in another thread on this list, the easiest way to install to a hard
drive is to physically remove it from your target machine, and temporarily install it in
the development machine.

One of the strengths of Peewee (and why it is 177 MB) is the availability of many
different Linux packages, all optimized to reduce their size on the target.

You don't really need to download the entire 177 MB, as this includes source.  The binary
only packages are about 51 MB.  I believe that thus far, every new release of Peewee does
require downloading of at least the binary packages.

Mark

Martin Doering wrote:

> I am searching for such an host OS, which is small enough to fit on one
> floppy, and what can start the emulator from another floppy. Possibly I
> would like to have a chance to install all this on a Harddisk, means create
> some kind of installation disks for a very minimal harddisk linux system.
> After this, you should not get in contact with the underlying host OS
> kernel more, than needed.
>
> Also the creation of this mini linux distribution should be easy and
> managable. This is, why I had an eye on PeeWee Linux.
>
> What do you think, would PeeWee linux be a good choice for this special
> thing?
>
> And I have another question: Do I really need to download 177 MB, for to
> build one 1,44 MB floppy?
> If yes, do I have to do this for every release of PeeWee linux?