Quoting Blu on Mon, Oct 18, 1999 at 09:22:25PM -0300: > sunshine_wonder wrote: > > > > > It's not hard to find big chunky distributions on CD-ROM but how do I > > shoehorn Linux on to my laptop? Is a 600 meg hard drive big enough for > > the OS, a word processor, and a game or two? Will it run more slowly > > with Linux than it does with Dos 6.22? Is there some kind of GUI that > > will run as well as Win 3.1 does? > > > > I think you shouldn't have problems installing debian in your laptop. I have > installed debian in a disk of 150 MB and it fits; obviously with only > necessary > packages. 600 MB is more than enough to have a comfortable environment. > > A little word of advice. I have never installed debian using the automatic > installation procedure "a la windows". I use dpkg (the low level pckage > installer) to install only the packages I need and my installation is about > 100 > MB, whith a lot of things. I think the automatic installation puts a lot of > things in your hard drive which you will never use. > > The way to go is to install the base system, following the instructions > outlined > at <http://www.debian.org> and then install the packages you want using dpkg > (or > apt if you want a nicer interface, I haven't used it). You will end with a lot > of free space in your HD. > > Felipe Sanchez > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > This is definitely true!! I recently did an install of debian potato from two floppy diskettes and a nfs mount and then began doing apt-gets to get all the additional stuff I wanted. Its taken me all day to get a system working the way I want with windowmaker, nice themes, staroffice 5.1a, gimp, etc but the disk real estate spent is significantly less than my redhat experiences. I am using a Fujitsu Lifebook now with a Pentium II 366 and 192mb of memory. The Lifebook has a Neomagic chipset and supported sound card. It runs debian quite nicely and is very nice weight wise compared to my Dell Inspiron 7000 which came in at 9 lbs.
Do the base system install as advised above and then use "apt-get install" to round things out. You have quite good control using this method and you end up with the system you want. Debian is just great!! -- Michael Perry [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------
