This is a fork of Minimal Linux Script: One script to generate a minimalistic live Linux ISO image.
The goal of this fork is to have USB 3 support in order to make a miniature system with DD for backups.
The script uses Linux kernel 4.19, BusyBox and Syslinux. The source bundles are downloaded and compiled automatically. Kernel and Busybox are compiled using all available CPU cores.
On Ubuntu, the following command should resolve all build dependencies:
sudo apt-get install wget bc build-essential gawk xorriso syslinux-utils bison flex libelf-dev libssl-dev
After that, simply run the script:
./minimal.sh
The script doesn't require root privileges. In the end there should be a bootable ISO image named minimal_linux_live.iso in the same directory.