It ain't gonna fit babe
this post was submitted on 15 May 2024
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Gentoo would fit just fine :P
Can you use any sort of compression to fit it? Or just use netboot.xyz
+1 for netboot.xyz
The giant in the picture, thats like trying to squash an ant with a chef knive.
I lost my 4G drive, it's in a better place now. It's been serving me since 2003 even when it lost its case to fit in a USB port on the Xbox 360.
Maybe the new owner of the house I moved out of will find it and the outdated copy of Arch Linux on it.
If they have any sense they'll not try to find out what's on it and send it straight to whatever electronics recycling is available.
Sticking a USB device of unknown provenance into your computer is just asking for trouble. (When you think about it, we even take a risk every time we buy one.)
Sure, you know it's harmless, but they don't know that, even if you tell them. Who are you? You're just someone who used to live in their house. As far as they know, you might be a freak who gets a kick out of leaving dodgy devices around for people to find.
Maybe if you use a file system that supports compression, e.g. btrfs, bcachefs, F2FS, squashfs, or EROFS. Of course, you'd need to add a separate FAT32 EFI System Partition for the bootloader, not sure how to do that.
Arch has an internet pxe option
How often has it been used does it still actually have a gigabyte of usable memory
I noticed this too and im curious about what threw it over that 1gb size?
It was Wayland. 👹
So it'll grow further, oh man
Use netboot.xyz and let us know how it goes. I’ve always been curious.
I love netboot.xyz. I use it all the time when setting up VPS systems. A lot of KVM-based VPSes have iPXE as a boot option so you can chainload directly into netboot without having to use an ISO.
I prefer installing the OS myself over using any images provided by the provider, so that I know exactly how it was set up.
Netboot.xyz has tools to build your own custom version of it too, with your own options. Useful if you want to host it on an internal server. It's essentially just a set of iPXE scripts.
I've used it a few times, impressive as hell in how simple and effective it is on a small home lab.
Since arch is a rolling release distro, can't you just download an older iso from when it was below 1gb, install it and then update the system?
Check this page: https://archlinux.org/releng/releases/
Stuff like archinstall might not work, without updating the keyring.
In the game the little guy wins, so you made it work?
Not yet, but the next time I need to reinstall(probably when my new processor arrives), I probably will.
I still have a 128mb usb drive with alpine.
That's impressive, what brand it is?
I dunno. It is a company branded swag gift. Got it like 20 or so years ago when I found it on the ground. Still works. Slow as heck.
found it on the ground
Checks out
This is the way
It's okay, they hadn't invented malware yet
Malware IS the neat part)
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