topic title: Iron Browser
Posts: 4,164
rokytnji
Joined: 20 Feb 2009
#1
Since my AntiX 8.5 Asus EEEPC 900 install is just purring along just fine. Plus. I gotta be careful when using apt-get dist-upgrade, because of only having 4 gig SSD drive for root"/". I like to try out browsers that I can run static from /home (which is on my 16gig SSD drive) so as to keep space free for /.

I grabbed it from here:
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Downloaded to /home and extracted it i /home. Then deleted tar file download.

My Menu and Toolbar entry in Icewm.

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prog"Iron" /mnt/sdb1/home/harry/iron-linux/product_logo_48.png /mnt/sdb1/home/harry/iron-linux/iron
Have not tested my Menu entry yet in Fluxbox. Will come back later after i SWITCH desktop sessions.
Fluxbox Menu entry:

Edit: Yeah. My entry works in Fluxbox also.

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[exec] (Iron) {/mnt/sdb1/home/harry/iron-linux/iron}
Not a lot of extensions showing yet. But google-chrome extensions do work as I just installed adthwart from google-chrome extensions and it works.
Posts: 1
allenbeme
Joined: 08 Dec 2010
#2
Greetings . I am using an EeePC 900a. I have similar storage setup as you. I did some changes in the partitioning scheme in order to have more space for binaries. I split system files between 2 drives. Here is a look at my file system (df -h)

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Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sdb1             5.6G  3.0G  2.3G  57% /
none                  491M  256K  491M   1% /dev
none                  497M  1.6M  495M   1% /dev/shm
none                  497M  212K  497M   1% /var/run
none                  497M     0  497M   0% /var/lock
/dev/sdb5             9.2G  6.7G  2.1G  77% /home
/dev/sda5             277M   51M  213M  20% /boot
/dev/sda6             1.3G   34M  1.2G   3% /tmp
/dev/sda7             1.3G  489M  730M  41% /var
SDA is my 4gig ssd drive. SDB is a 16 gig hcsd drive. Your 16gig ssd should be much faster
Posts: 4,164
rokytnji
Joined: 20 Feb 2009
#3
Yeah. Mine is simpler cuz when I installed and setup /home on sdb . I was venturing into virgin territory. I installed AntiX to 4gig SSD. Then moved /home to secondary 16gig SSD and symlinked it to / (/home) on sda.

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Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda1             3.7G  1.8G  1.8G  51% /
tmpfs                1009M  4.0K 1009M   1% /lib/init/rw
udev                   10M  268K  9.8M   3% /dev
tmpfs                1009M  4.0K 1009M   1% /dev/shm
/dev/sdb1              15G  4.1G   11G  29% /mnt/sdb1
/var/tmp             1009M  4.0K 1009M   1% /var/tmp
/var/tmp             1009M  272K 1009M   1% /var/log
tmpfs                  64M     0   64M   0% /media/ramdisk
My /etc/fstab (customized by me)

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# Pluggable devices are handled by uDev, they are not in fstab
/dev/sda1 / auto defaults,noatime 1 1
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
devpts /dev/pts devpts mode=0622 0 0
/dev/sdb1 /mnt/sdb1 ext2 auto,users,exec,noatime,errors=remount-ro 1 1
tmp  /tmp  tmpfs  defaults,noatime  0 0
tmp  /var/log  tmpfs    defaults,noatime  0 0
# Dynamic entries below
/dev/sda3 /mnt/sda3 vfat noauto,users,gid=users,dmask=002,fmask=113,relatime 0 0
tmpfs /media/ramdisk tmpfs size=64M,nr_inodes=10k,mode=777 0 0
I've been doing OK keeping / on sda at 1.8 gig doing apt-get dist-upgrade so far. Anything I can run static from /home is a plus for me. Iron starts up quick and runs quick from crappy 16 gig Phison SSD.
Posts: 609
dark-D
Joined: 02 Jun 2008
#4
roky some tips to save space, don't know if you use them, but they keep my antix at 1 gb:
apt-get remove --purge packagename (remove any app you don't use)
apt-get clean (removes package debs from /var/cache/apt/archives/)
apt-get autoremove --purge (remove packages that are no longer needed)
orphaner --purge (same as above but more advanced)
delete the content of /usr/share/man (manuals)
delete the content of /usr/share/doc (documentation)
delete the content of /usr/src (kernel sources)
delete the content of /usr/share/icons/ (only the ones that you don't use, don't delete hicolor)
delete the content of /var/log (not the folders only the files)
delete the content of /var/cache/flashplugin-nonfree
delete /var/cache/apt/pkgcache.bin and var/cache/apt/srcpkgcache.bin but they are created at every dist-upgrade
install localepurge and set it to your language (deletes all the languages except the one that you use) i also delete everything from /usr/share/locale after that, not recommended if you don't use english.
Posts: 4,164
rokytnji
Joined: 20 Feb 2009
#5
Yeah. I locale-purged, used orphan and autoclean, but not some of the others like manuals and /var/log yet. Good ideas there Ice. Will look into that tomorrow when my mind has rested. I do my best borking when eyes and mind are tired. __{{emoticon}}__