Re: Minimal but useful Linux userland, COW filesystems footprint

Petros <Petros.Listig@fdrive.com.au> wrote:

I also want to have a small but useful userland.. I am thinking of a "minimalist" Debian installation but other ideas are welcome too.

I would suggest finding out what users of lxc are running. If you want a minimal Debian distribution, have a look at the installation guide (there's an appendix that covers installation using Debootstrap). Debootstrap will give you a very minimal installation to which you can then add a kernel and make all necessary configuration changes, e.g., to /etc/fstab. You'll need to enter a chroot environment and bind mount some virtual file systems such as /proc. I've done all of this successfully but I can't remember all of the steps.