How to install a very minimal Ubuntu system in a partition.

There is a very minimal Ubuntu release I have found. This is as bare-bones as it can be. This could be the basis of a custom Linux distribution. Download a copy here: http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-base/releases/19.10/release/ubuntu-base-19.10-base-amd64.tar.gz. I had a spare 35 Gigabyte Linux partition, so I unpacked the contents of the tarball into the partition so that it … Read more

Re-Installing the bootloader on Debian Squeeze.

I had to re-install the Debian bootloader after installing Windows 7 Ultimate and I did this by loading up my OpenSuse x64 installation DVD and selecting the rescue option which gave me a login prompt. I logged in as root and after following this post: Gentoo chroot guide, and setting up a chroot to my … Read more