Thanks. I think I have thought of a solution that WONT take up your space...
I've shoved
a 500MB version (now zipped to 160mb) on dropbox and post INSTRUCTIONS to make it LARGER.
(not smaller)
EDIT: and here is a 7zipped (110Mb) link to the same file...
7 zipped 500Mb debian
You can find 7zip for the kindle here
https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...d.php?t=223212
the following example will make
the seed 500MB into a 2 Gb partition
FILENAME=/mnt/base-us/deb.5gb.ext3
dd if=/dev/zero of=$FILENAME bs=1M count=1500 oflag=append conv=notrunc
e2fsck -f $FILENAME
resize2fs $FILENAME
(You can choose ANY size just swap the 1500 for however many MB you want ADDED)
SEE
THIS POST FOR A KINDLE DD THAT SUPPORTS THE RIGHT OPTIONS, (or do it on your PC)
That seems an efficient solution.
Alternately as pointed out by
Icantbebothered:
FILENAME=/mnt/base-us/deb.5gb.ext3
dd if=/dev/zero bs=1M count=512 >> $FILENAME
e2fsck -f $FILENAME
resize2fs $FILENAME
The above is OKAY because the ext3 file should never be "being written to" anyways during this process.. so yeah. Good point by him.
deb.5gb.ext3 is a general purpose image that WILL need
the additional steps outlined above doing to make it a "build system", when you are bored of it or you screw it up just replace it again. (EDIT: I did this just last night)
Enjoy
The script to mount this partition is available on the DEBIAN ON A PAPERWHITE thread (and ill post it again below)