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Minimax 20060326 Beta

Minimax is a Linux distribution which completely fit to an initrd image, because of this it can boot in every situation, which you ca

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Minimax is a Linux distribution which completely fit to an initrd image, because of this it can boot in every situation, which you can imagine.

It is ultra small (32 MB), but very power full. Minimax distribution contains 2.6 kernel with ALL modules and balanced set of console utils, no X server.

Here are some key features of "Minimax":

Very small, only 32 MB

Very good hardware support, see kernel config.

Fits to initrd, can boot on strange SCSI/SATA/USB disks

Can be added to /boot partition very easy

System runs from ramdisk

Contains only console utils, no x server, see packages

Modern architecture: kernel 2.6, udev with autosymlinks, module autoloading, based on Arch linux

Based on uclibc and busybox

Some key software:

Full 2.6.15 kernel with modules, with autodetection and udev. Takes about 60% of livecd size.

Installer for Arch linux

wifi drivers and utils: hostap,wlan-ng, madwifi, ndiswrapper...

Grub as main bootloader

Midnight Commander

Links2 - text and graphic web browser

FBI - an image viewer

IRSSI - an irc client

CenterICQ - an excelent client for icq,msn,jabber...

Music on console - player with mp3,ogg and online streaming support

Bash burn - an cd record console frontend

Partimage - disk mirroring tool

Minimum requirements:

64 MB RAM (system needs 32 MB big ramdisk).

An i386 or better processor.

Hardware compatible with 2.6.15 kernel, for very old computers (486) is Damm small linux or Puppy linux better choice, becouse of 2.4 kernel

How was it made?

I take uclibc and busybox (software for embedded linux) and compile base system from scratch. I add initscripts from Arch linux, they are very easy to understand and modify. With some other software and modular kernel 2.6 I got system with about 70 MB. After compression with squashfs I got 30 MB big initrd image. Now it was easy to create an CD image.

Packages

minimax , bash, busybox, dhcpcd, e2fsprogs, filesystem, gpm, initscripts, kdm, kernel, libz, module-init-tools, ncurses, net-utils, sysvinit, uclibc, udev, utils, archsetup, snarf, rsync, vsftpd, dd_rescue, dd_rhelp, dosfstools, ext2resize, grub, jetcat, jfsutils, lilo, ntfsprogs, parted, partimage, reiserfsprogs, squashfs-tools, xfsprogs, bastet, enigma, fbi, libexif, libgif, libjpeg, libpng, links, libbz2, libc++, libcom_err, libexpat, libnet, libpcap, libpcre, libtool, *, alsa-lib, alsa-utils, bashburn, cdrdao, cdrtools, dvd+rw-tools, libao, libid3tag, libmad, libogg, libvorbis, moc, shfs, biew, centericq, glib, htop, irssi, mc, nano, ncurses, nstats, screen, dnstracer, iplog, iptables, libpcap, netcat, ngrep, nmap, openssh, openssl, tcpdump, autossh, bc, curl, file, hdparm, pciutils, ppp, pv, raidtools, tcptraceroute, wget, x86info, atmel-firmware, drivers_in_kernel, hostap-utils, ipw2100-firmware, ipw2200-firmware, linux-wlan-ng, linux-wlan-ng-firmware, linux-wlan-ng-utils, madwifi-tools, ndiswrapper, prism54-firmware, wireless-tools, zd1201-firmware, zd1211
tags

arch linux linux wlan uclibc and firmware linux and busybox very easy can boot kernel with console utils some key initrd image

Download Minimax 20060326 Beta

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Minimax 20060326 Beta (by Jan Kotek)
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