debootstrap --minbase would be a good place to start, rather than ripping
down an existing image.

I know this is possible with live build.

On Thu, May 12, 2016 at 7:52 AM, KatolaZ <katolaz@???> wrote:

> Dear Devuaners,
>
> inspired by the recent thread about unofficial devuan live images
> obtained with refracta tools, in the last few days I have been
> experimenting with a small-footprint version of Devuan Jessie Beta. My
> goal was to obtain a fully functional minimal system using standard
> Devuan packages and less than 250 MB. The main purpose would be a
> minimal system to put on a small USB key or on a card CDROM.
>
> The results of those experiments can be found here:
>
> http://devuan.kalos.mine.nu/
>
> It is a minimal UNOFFICIAL live ISO image of Devuan Jessie Beta, which
> includes a few ncurses-based personal productivity packages, a couple
> of editors, basic versions of perl and python, and some additional
> stuff. Nothing more. No bloat. No X. Even if I am considering adding
> Xorg + DWM, at the cost of a few more megabytes.
>
> The image boots in a few seconds, and should run on anything amd64
> with more than 64MB of RAM. I will probably provide also an i386
> image.
>
> Please feel free to try it and send comments and/or suggestions. I
> will now try to understand how the whole process can be simplified
> using the devuan sdk.
>
> HH
>
> KatolaZ
>
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