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04-05-2002, 04:33 PM
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Linux minimum HDD install
hey, I'm a newbie in the Linux world, I'm a poor high school student, and I'm gonna be leaving the country for a couple months this summer (long story), so I'm buying a really low end laptop (Pentium grade). So, as you can imagine the HDD is going to be tiny. I know I can get linux as small (Red Hat 7.1) as 650 megs w/ the custom install, and I know you can get it even smaller than that if you download the right packages online and just install it yourself
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04-05-2002, 07:32 PM
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Hi,
Well, you can get a working OS on one floppy, but you might want a little more than that. If you are looking for a compact install, I get my Debian distro in 400megs. And that includes the Gnome DE, Netscrap 4.75, and a good selection of software. The only trouble you might have as a newbie is the install. It is all text based and can be a bit confusing to a total newbie. But it can be managed if you do a bit of reading and pay attention to what you are doing during the install. Besides apt-get is so cool  !Hope this helps, OOPS! |
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04-05-2002, 08:21 PM
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thanx, red hat 7.1 seems a little bloated, I was wondering what sort of things I could install at a minimum for command line, file management (delete, copy, write), the gcc compiler. If you could give or refer me to a basic list. I dont' really need a brower or a gui, so that should really cut down on the bloat. Thanx a lot.
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04-05-2002, 08:42 PM
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Well, I'm not the greatest expert in minimal installs. But besides the kernel ( and what ever services you need compiled in to it or as moduals), a text editor such as vi (THE editor for Linux people), mc (midnight commander) for file management, to print you will need lpr (I think lpr works from the CLI). And what ever libs and dependencies needed to make it all run. That would be a pretty minimal install.
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04-05-2002, 09:17 PM
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thanx
thanx, that oughta cover it. I'll try out vi, it's gotta be better than pico, lol. later
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04-07-2002, 12:23 AM
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Another option you might consider is QNX. This is another UNIX clone (aka:linuxlike) that does a full install on a 500MB drive. Stable, fast on less endowed systems even with onnly 32MB of RAM or even less.
On a performance (boot time), QNX on a low end P-133 with 32MB of RAM had the system at the desktop in under a minute. However, I found the "voyager" browser to be sorely lacking and Mozilla was a a better/more compatible browser. Here is the download site for both the full install and the "amazing floppy based" QNX. www.qnx.com A side note here: They call it the floppy based QNX "amazing" and it really is. Includes network support and surfin! |
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04-07-2002, 02:36 PM
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Hey Toaster, I've used QNX on a floppy-- I know it's Unix cause i've looked at the filesystem, but I was wondering if the gcc compiler would transfer? I really need to find a good faq or walk-through for newbies that want to run expert installs, lol. Thanx for your help you guys.
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