RE: [Rule-list] Distributing the distro

[John Anderson]

Well...

Back in 1995 I did an install with X, network, browser, editor, all the
basic bells and whistles, on a machine with a 25 MB HD.  Yes I know that
that was 7 years ago, but it could be done then, 80 MB should be reasonable
now.

That being said, I'm 99% ignorant of the sizes of modern software.  When I
did the above install, it was slackware and I made floppies off of the CD on
my desktop  machine.

let me know if I can help


> -----Original Message-----
> From: address@hidden
> [mailto:address@hidden Behalf Of Marco
> Fioretti
> Sent: 18 February, 2002 9:59 AM
> To: address@hidden
> Subject: Re: [Rule-list] Distributing the distro
>
>
> On Mon, Feb 18, 2002 09:07:07 at 09:07:07AM +0000, address@hidden wrote:
>
> > Small footprint?  So far, it appears you guys are talking about
> > 200-300mb.  That may seem small to people with 10gig harddrives,
> > but it's way too big for my 486-33 with 170mb HD.  I reckon you
> > should be aiming for a base installation of no bigger than 80mb
> > (including X, wm and graphical browser).
> >
>
> Ouch! 80 MB is hard...
> You are definitely right, and nothing would make us happier than
> making it: we'll try, but I'm not sure if it is possible from Red Hat.
> We'll see.
>
> A curiosity: are you thinking to a use only as internet kiosk, or as
> basic desktop (i.e. all that + email + text processing + PostScript
> print services....)?
>
>       Marco Fioretti
>       RULE project leader
>
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