Post #2889268
2026-05-27 04:49 UTC
I mean you could just compile your own kernel from the Debian source build and use the build menu to pull out everything you don’t need to get the memory requirements down. Then bootstrap with your kernel.
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@dan@upvote.au 2026-05-27 04:53
I’ve considered this, it just might be a pain to keep up to date with kernel updates. I guess I could create an appropriate config and then automate the builds. I also forgot that Debian has linux-image-cloud-amd64 which excludes a bunch of drivers. I’ll try that out too.
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@mlfh@lm.mlfh.org 2026-05-27 04:55
The ongoing maintenance for this would be a bit of a pain, since you’d need to recompile every update on a separate machine with enough memory to do so, package it up into a .deb, and distribute and install it everywhere. I do this on a little raspberry pi cluster and it works, but it’s work.