Re: tlug: sorry to bother you again, partition install

[Scott Stone <sstone@example.com>]

On Fri, 11 Dec 1998, Chris Sekiya wrote:

> On Fri, 11 Dec 1998, Scott Stone wrote:
> 
> > no, 84  megs isn't going to get you anywhere.
> 
> For root or for swap?
> 
> He's not going to need that much for swap.
> 
> If you're talking about root: BS!  For TL, yes, it's damned near
> impossible to get the base install down to less than 90 MB.  That's
> because the installer forces you to install crap that you don't need.

actually the 3.0.1 base install will fit in 85.  Even when I used to use
slackware, though, I couldn't get what I considered to be a usable system
in under 140.

> 
> If one is not doing development or X, there is _no_ reason why a basic
> install should take up more than forty megs or so.
> 

what would you do, practically, with a gcc-less, X-less Linux?

> -- Chris
> 
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Scott M. Stone <sstone@example.com, sstone@example.com>
Head of TurboLinux Development/Systems Administrator
Pacific HiTech, Inc (USA) / Pacific HiTech, KK (Japan)


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