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Hossein S. Zadeh wrote:
>On Mon, 9 Apr 2001, Thomas Ribbrock wrote:
>
>> On Sun, Apr 08, 2001 at 08:03:26AM -0400, John Aldrich wrote:
>> > I'm anticipating the usual "RedHat" bloat. ;-) I've got to
>> > confess I've never TRIED to install a minimal system, so I
>> > don't know if it can be done. I've heard that you can do it
>> > with 3-500 megs...
>>
>> Well, you could always try one of the *BSDs (particularly OpenBSD - made for
>> such a job!) if you fear bloat... ;-)
>>
>
>If you don't need X, you can install in about 30-50M (that's not a
>typo--it is thirty to fifty megabytes).
Yes. Red Hat's rpm dependencies will fight you every step of the way
if you try to strip it down. I've never got an install below 120MB
with 6.2 or 7. It's not well suited for minimal installations.
- -d
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David Talkington
http://www.spotnet.org
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