On 24-Jul-98 Young, Ed wrote: > I'd like to put Linux onto a Toshiba T2100 Satellite laptop with 120Mbyte > harddrive. I believe it's a 486sx. It has 8 megs of ram so I don't care to > run X. I'd like to put on a minimalist installation but I need to have some > emacsen, gcc. Optional but highly desireable is Octave, Perl. I'll be > installing the base with floppy disks, but will be installing the rest from > a parallel zip drive, if possible. > > I want to use it for a numerical analysis class so it needs quite a few > utilities, but we'll have to see how much I can fit on it.
Way way back I once had SLS Linux on a 40MB disk + 4MB RAM. No X of course, nor emacs. Octave was smaller then (so were a lot of other things, including gcc) but it went on. Basically: 5MB swap, 25MB for the Linux stuff, 10MB for user apps (including octave) and user files. I managed to get a lot of work done with this (mainly with octave & troff). (Mind you, a lot of stuff got archived to floppies, and there were periodic fierce deletion sessions). You might even find space for a minimal X: if you can get it on the HD along with your other stuff, it should run OK in 8MB RAM. Best of luck, Ted. -------------------------------------------------------------------- E-Mail: (Ted Harding) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 24-Jul-98 Time: 18:19:40 -------------------------------------------------------------------- -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
