Re: Compact Linux distro for primarily pkgsrc based installation

[Peter Lai <cowbert%gmail.com@localhost>]

The Arch ISO comes with sshd yes.

On Wed, Nov 30, 2022 at 12:46 AM Mayuresh <mayuresh%acm.org@localhost> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Nov 30, 2022 at 12:09:27AM -0500, Peter Lai wrote:
> > The Arch Linux ISO is 784MB. The main issue with any sort of minimal
> > linux install is that at minimum a gcc toolchain, binutils and a way
> > to get an initial pkgsrc tree onto the box (e.g. curl and any deps for
> > it) is required to bootstrap pkgsrc.
>
> Native binary installation for these deps should be ok, I guess, as long
> as the platform provides them in the repos.
>
> > I'm assuming you don't want to do all the building on the physical TTY
> > console; most minimal linux base installs (even the CentOS one) don't
> > even come with sshd.
>
> Right. What about Arch Linux ISO you mentioned, does it come with sshd?
>
> --
> Mayuresh