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From: fred smith <fredex(a)fcshome.stoneham.ma.us>
To: Community support for Fedora users <users(a)lists.fedoraproject.org>
Sent: Thu, November 11, 2010 1:16:59 PM
Subject: Re: Making space on an EeePC
It's not at all clear to me how one would go about installing f13 or f14
(or anything else similarly-sized) on a 4 gig device. You may have better
luck if you can stick an 8 gig (or bigger) SDHC card in the SDHC card
reader, install /boot on the internal 4 gigs and then let / and /home
spill over onto it.
Been there, done that, here's how (more or less):
1. Install to a spacious partition on a similar system
2. Shrink partition containing the unstall to <4GB using gparted
3. Archive the filesystem (I use fsarchiver)
4. Format 4GB device (one ext2 partition)
5. Unarchive the archived filesystem to the 4GB device
6. Grow fs on 4GB device to fill the device
6. Install grub on 4GB device
7. Clean up mount point refs as needed
8. Reboot system from 4GB device