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From: David Kelly <dkelly@hiwaay.net>
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Subject: Re: How to doc available?
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On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 03:19:17PM -0400, Mikel King wrote:
> Anyone know of a good tutorial for making a system on a USB key in
> limited space? I have a project that requires enough of running system
> with lighttpd and php5 to do some network magick. I would like to keep
> the thing below 512MB but if that is not feasible then I'll shoot for
> whatever the smallest I can get away with.

Have you tried it yet? Once Upon A Time Not So Long Ago, 512MB was a
*huge* system disk.

And as others have pointed out much larger USB stick is cheap. So how
many hours are you willing to spend to save $12?

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David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@HiWAAY.net
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