[Lilug] Stripping down an Ubuntu Image?

Justin Dearing zippy1981 at gmail.com
Thu Feb 26 06:43:01 PST 2009


Ken

Start with removing open office audacity etc. Then remove anything
that is a -devel package and a -doc package.

Before you do that figure out how to make an unattended install script
in ubuntu. Don't make this a manual chore to update.

On 2/26/09, Kenneth Downs <ken at secdat.com> wrote:
> It's been proposed over on the Andromeda mailing list that we provide an
> Ubuntu image with Andromeda all installed and ready to go.
>
> I'm figuring a Sun VirtualBox image would be best for that.
>
> Question is, an installed Ubuntu seems to take > 3G.  I'm sure that can
> be compressed, but does anybody know what can be safely purged to shrink
> that down?  Or can anybody point me in the right direction?
>
> Thanks.
>
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