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Re: Linux boxes.



Harvey J. Stein wrote:
> A full RedHat v3.0.3 (a.k.a. Picasso) installation fills about 550 mb,
> not counting other things you might want to install.  I don't know how
> big RedHat v4 (a.k.a. Rembrant) is.  If you want to do a simple
> straight-forward full install, as opposed to picking exactly which
> packages you want (which I wouldn't recommend for a newbie), I'd give

I wouldn't advise a newbie to try to choose packages either (mainly
because he/she wouldn't know which packages to choose).  But the does
the RH default selection include everything?  Debian provides a
"reasonable default" which can sit well within 150Mb (probably much
less) and can get you startting.  (By "default" I mean that you can
simply skip the step of choosing packages (mostly because last time
I ran dselect (long time ago) it sucked) and still get a working,
configured and networked installation)

> Linux at least a 1gb partition.  This should leave a reasonable amount
> of room for fooling around, but if you start trying to do things like
> recompile emacs, gcc & libc all at once, you might go a long way
> towards sucking up that remaining 450mb.

This is a long shot, isn't it?  I don't see any reason to recompile
standard packages today besides the kernel (and I hope someone will
finally pickup the glove and implement the obvious (but not so
trivial) solution of a library of kernel .o files which can be linked
as needed, maybe even through a Web interface, instead of forcing
people to download huge kernel sources.  Maybe split the kernel
source to separate packages?).

--Amos

--Amos Shapira                  | "Of course Australia was marked for
                                |  glory, for its people had been chosen
amos@dsi.co.il                  |  by the finest judges in England."
                                |                         -- Anonymous


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