Thanks to everyone who responded to my question on building and extremely small distro with just a single app. I will do some in-depth research on all of the possibilities, especially the Yocto Project seems like a very interesting approach, to see if I can take the next steps forward on the project to make a self-booting iso. Have a great day, Lonnie On Mon, Nov 18, 2019 at 9:02 AM Greg Land via arch-general < arch-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > You could also go straight up embedded with > https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yocto_Project . This would let you get a > very very small image built. > > On Mon, Nov 18, 2019, 01:26 riveravaldez via arch-general < > arch-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > On 11/17/19, Eli Schwartz via arch-general <arch-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > wrote: > > > On 11/17/19 6:01 PM, Lonnie Cumberland wrote: > > >> The project is basically to have the absolutely smallest possible > Linux > > >> distro (x86_64 based) that would be a type of LiveCD RAM-Based > bootable > > >> system that has an Xserver and VirtualBox 6.0 but no real desktop > > >> running. > > >> I want it to boot directly into the VirtualBox 6.0 GUI. > > >> > > >> The other catch is that I need a system that has an extremely small > > >> footprint image and am hoping that the ISO could be between 150 MB - > 200 > > >> MB > > >> in size, but of course even smaller is better. > > >> > > > > > > http://www.damnsmalllinux.org/ is specifically oriented at being the > > > smallest footprint possible. You could also experiment with Gentoo, by > > > configuring the necessary USE flags to disable any features you do not > > > need. > > > > > > Eli Schwartz > > > Bug Wrangler and Trusted User > > > > Another option worth trying (in my experience): > > > > Tiny Core Linux > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiny_Core_Linux > > http://tinycorelinux.net/ > > > > And maybe: > > > > SliTaz GNU/Linux > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SliTaz > > http://www.slitaz.org/en/ > > > > Just for reference: > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Light-weight_Linux_distribution > > > > Best regards > > >
