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Re: [Rule-list] Distributing the distro
From: |
ichi |
Subject: |
Re: [Rule-list] Distributing the distro |
Date: |
Mon, 18 Feb 2002 19:04:59 +0000 |
Devon 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).
>
> I can't see it happening in 80MB. With 16MB of ram, you'll want at
> least 32MB of swap space, leaving 48MB for the system.
You misunderstand. 80mb for the distribution, 32mb for swap.
That's 112kb (quite comfortable on my 170mb HD).
> I've gotten the installed size of the packages down to under 160MB,
> and can probably do a little more. However, that doesn't include
> XFree86 or any of it's dependencies.
On my 486, I'm currently running a very slim Slackware 3.5 with
XFree86, icewm and Netscape 3.04. It runs happily in a 30mb Linux
partition (plus 32mb swap partition). It would be nice to have
something more up-to-date, but I certainly won't be trading my 30mb
GUI installation for a 160mb installation that doesn't even include
XFree.
Cheers,
Steven