Thread: Instruction Video: Flashing your n900 with a LiveCD.
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2010-11-18 , 22:56
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Originally Posted by slender View Post
What is the smallest distribution that boots straight to terminal and still has wide HW support out of box?

I´m thinking that just downloading more than 100 Mb just for flashing purpose is just bit too much.
Gentoo Live CDs aren't much bigger than 100MiB and boot to a shell. You'll have to run dhcpcd or configure the network manually yourself after booting. I've used them on a plethora of desktop and server machines and never had a problem with hardware drivers, although I've never tried to use WiFi from the Live CD; this may present problems.