[wplug] Low system requirements distro
Scott Bourns
scott at scottbourns.com
Wed Apr 9 22:04:50 EDT 2003
What version of Debian are you guys using?
Thanks for the info.
Scott
On 4/9/03 10:25 PM, "bgtrio at yahoo.com" <bgtrio at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 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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