Re: Basic Debian size

2002-01-18 Thread Karsten M. Self
Pardon the tardiness. This mail got lost on another system I'd sort of misplaced on Sun, Dec 23, 2001 at 04:13:29AM -0800, Dan Robinson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > I'm a Linux pre-newbie, as I'm sure you'll notice. Someone gave me a > TI TravelMate 5000 laptop computer (for parts for a

Re: Basic Debian size

2001-12-23 Thread Daniel Freedman
On Sun, Dec 23, 2001, Dan Robinson wrote: > > I'm a Linux pre-newbie, as I'm sure you'll notice. Someone gave me a > TI TravelMate 5000 laptop computer (for parts for a different model, > but this one works better). It has no CD drive. A friend spent about > 4 hours installing Debian, (w/o GUI, wh

Re: Basic Debian size

2001-12-23 Thread CaT
On Sun, Dec 23, 2001 at 04:13:29AM -0800, Dan Robinson wrote: > they're for (and I don't care for Ws, now in two contexts). In Linux > circles I hear mainly about needing gigabytes. I'm wondering if > there's a basic Linux system, or other open source systems, within a > couple orders of magnitude

Basic Debian size

2001-12-23 Thread Dan Robinson
I'm a Linux pre-newbie, as I'm sure you'll notice. Someone gave me a TI TravelMate 5000 laptop computer (for parts for a different model, but this one works better). It has no CD drive. A friend spent about 4 hours installing Debian, (w/o GUI, which I avoid) using a network connection. It still ha