On Sat, 26 Jun 2004 12:30:49 -0500, cecil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Yay! My "new" winbook fx is within a truck drive away. Seeing a how its > a 150mhz machine with 32 meg ram and 2 gig hd, I need to start thinking > about how to set this up to be my school laptop. I know linux will > install. Setting up power management, I can read up on it. The memory, > that too can be worked around. But does anyone know how much space the > "base" install for debian takes up? I was going to dual boot to dos(250 > meg). All I need is my development stuff(pretty much already included), > the pcmcia package, and X. Well, I don't NEED X, but it would be nice. > How much space does Gnome take up? Is it better just using twm? Any > ideas? I ran RH 4.1 back in 97 on the exact same machine, and I was > using X with no problem back then. Any reason I will run into problems? > I'll probably install mozilla, xmms, and gnome, unless its too big. Some > sort of simple office suite also, I guess. > > Cecil > > Hey, it only cost me 71 bucks for it; it's hard to beat that for a > school computer. >
Figures I have to hand .. I recently installed woody/stable (as much as debootstrap gave me), a sane gcc toolchain, and X4.3, Ximian Desktop 2 (including mozilla & xmms) and OpenOffice backports from linux.upsa.es .. a total 1.2Gb. I wasn't trying to conserve space, however, you may manage less simply by paying attention to how much you're installing. Sarge/testing as per debootstrap .. no kernel/toolchain yet, weighed in at 164M (including 33Mb apt cache) HTH, Shaun ( Appologies for sending off-list the first time around, webmail only at work .. horrible list handling ) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]