Re: How much space needed for a web server install?

[Darren Cook <darrenj@example.com>]

> the Turbolinux base install down to 85 megs ... FreeBSD's base install is
> under 100 megs or so, IIRC.

Debian's was around 30Mb I think; it was very bare, but I didn't need to
install much more to get a web server running. Like you I still can't
get comfortable with dselect.


> I just installed RH 7.1 on an old PC to use as an intranet web server.
> However it seemed that a basic install (minus a few packages like emacs)
> still takes about 600 Mbytes. I would have taken more packages out but I'm
> not sure what they all are or which I will need.

Did you install X windows? You need the X libraries for some things, but
that is all.

Darren