First let me say thanks to anyone who helped. I finally managed to set up the thinkpad with Latex/tex + window maker + xserver-svga under 350mb with 109mb spare + 30mb swap. debian really came thru with the dselect tool, i already tried it with mandrake,redhat, slack a year ago and never got satisfactory results as with debian. I hereby formally retract anything i said about the dselect earlier. 10x.
* - * - * Tzahi Fadida MSc Student Information System Engineering Area Faculty of Industrial Engineering & Management Technion - Israel Institute of Technology Technion City, Haifa, Israel 32000 Email [EMAIL PROTECTED] Technion Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * - * - * - * - * - * - * - * - * - * WARNING TO SPAMMERS: see at http://members.lycos.co.uk/my2nis/spamwarning.html > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Tzahi Fadida > Sent: Wednesday, October 15, 2003 12:35 AM > To: Shaul Karl > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: PCMCIA trouble > > > well, after messing with dselect all day, i managed to operate it and install > everything under the constrains (with window maker xfree86,etc..). > However, i have one problem left. i need to translate this: > http://www.angelfire.com/nt/sucks/XF86Config.txt > > to the new XF86Config-4 format. > i tried to configured regularly but it gave me: > screens found .. non usable.. > Fatal error: > no screens found. > 10x. > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Shaul Karl > > Sent: Tuesday, October 14, 2003 5:18 PM > > To: Tzahi Fadida > > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject: Re: PCMCIA trouble > > > > > > On Tue, Oct 14, 2003 at 12:15:13AM +0200, Tzahi Fadida wrote: > > > > > > > > Does that mean that base took 172mb? For some reason I believe it > > > > should be much much less. > > > > > > > i'v put 30mb swap. > > > > > > > > > http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/ch-preparing.en.html#s-mmhr > > states 50M for a standard server. As far as I know this includes base. > > Are you sure you didn't miss something? > > > > > > > > > > > > > the Tex/Latex is 180 mb and i need it so i installed it. (still > > in progress) > > > > > > > > Can it be that you should format your fs to use smaller blocks? Have > > > > you seen the figures at > > > > http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/install.en.htm ? > > > > > > > > > > Oops, forgot the l in the URL. This should have been html rather then > > htm. > > > > > > > i used whats default with the install. > > > > > > > > > [ ... ] > > > > > > > > Wouldn't X + an older fashion window manager suffice? That might also > > > > be a more reasonable usage of the scare resources and might help to have > > > > it run a bit faster. > > > > > > > yeah it will, and this is what i want but i don't know what to > > select in dselect > > > or do an apt-get to get the minimum i need. > > > > > > Unlike dselect, apt-get might pull in `Suggest' without letting the > > user know that it is only suggested. Which is hardly suitable for a > > limited space installation. As for the packages to choose in dselect, > > just go for the most obvious apps you want. Hopefully > > Depends/Suggests/Recommends will do the rest. > > > > > > [ ... ] > > > > > > > it was 8mb and was upgraded to 24mb. > > > > > > > > > The more the better. > > > > -- > > > > Shaul Karl, shaulk @ actcom . net . il > > > > ================================================================= > > To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with > > the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command > > echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > > ================================================================= > To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with > the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command > echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
