[wplug] Low system requirements distro

[bgtrio at yahoo.com]

I've got Debian installed on a 486 laptop with a 340 meg hard drive and 8 
megs of ram (maybe 12, can't remember).   No X windows, but I got some 
SVGA games to sort of work (well, just doom really).

Yay floppy installation.

It was a fine terminal for email in the bedroom for a while, don't use it 
much anymore though.

Bryguy

On 9 Apr 2003, Tim Quinlan wrote:

> Debian will install in way less than 800 megs.  On my Debian workstation
> (which has Gnome, Enlightenment, Apache, MySQL, tons of dev and desktop
> software) only uses about 650 megs after you subtract out movies, mp3s
> and /usr/src.  It's been about 4 years since I've installed Debian on
> this machine, I'm using apt to update it, so there are probably a few
> packages laying around which aren't needed any more.
> 
> If you use Debian in a limited disk space machine, remember that it
> keeps copies of .deb files in /var/cache/apt/archives, and they can pile
> up after a while.  apt-get autoclean will remove the old .deb files.  
> 
> There is even a distro of Debian that will fit on a 180MB mini-CDR. 
> http://www.debianplanet.org/node.php?id=931
> 
>   
> On Wed, 2003-04-09 at 20:10, Scott Bourns wrote:
> > Okay, guys and gals.
> > 
> > I have a Pentium 100, 8MB RAM, 800 MB HD I want to save from the graveyard,
> > while impressing my boss by making it useful. ;-p
> > 
> > I only need it for a Telnet station, but I haven't had much luck searching
> > for a Linux distro that will fit the system.
> > 
> > Can anyone give me a nudge in the right direction, please? Text mode is
> > perfectly fine, as well. Besides, I assume that¹s my only choice?
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > 
> > Scott
> > 
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