Best way to get minimal system

[Tim]

On Tue, 2010-01-05 at 16:11 -0500, Bill Davidsen wrote:
> My solution to installs for little machines is a box I got from
> Newegg, has a USB connector and PATA inside for old drives (SATA
> available as well), and I install on a real computer with lots of
> resources, even if I'm running on next to nothing.

To transplant the drive to another computer?

I've done that, but you have to beware that you can install a system
that won't work (without some fiddling) on another computer.  I've been
lucky that there was only a minimum of fiddling required, but it's
possible to create a system that can't read the hard drive, and you need
to know how to rebuild the initrd to resolve it.

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[tim at localhost ~]$ uname -r
2.6.27.25-78.2.56.fc9.i686

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