> I have a 486 pc with 248MB harddrive space and 16MB Ram memory. > I want to turn this pc in a mailserver running under linux.
> Can you tell me if i have enough space on my harddisk to fit both the > minimum required packages (to ask as mailserver) and MS-dos. > Which packages do i need ??? More than enough room, but, as has been pointed out, if it's a mailserver, you can't take it down to use dos (so use dosemu. even so, a small dos partition might be nice; i found a chicken & egg problem with doseme and the included freedos). Anyway, I installed the full base installation, X, and swap on machines with two 80mb drives and 8M. Come to think of it, i also had gcc, g++, kernel source, and lyx source installed. Oh, and that hog, emacs. Bug that was about as far as I could push it, iirc. Just do a base installation, let it install the default files by cd or ftp, and you'll have all you need. If you're going to download the files, and it currently has dos internet capacity, i'd make the 32mb partition to become swap as a second dos partition, downoload resc1440, drv1440, base2_1.tgz (sp), and rawrite2 into this partition. Use rawrite to make the resc1440 disk, and leave the rest of the files there. boot from resc1440. When it offers to partition, delete the first, partition and put a linux partition there. leave the second be, and tell it to do without a swap partition. When you get to the "install" whatever part, tell it that the files are on /dev/hda2. After it installs the base files, you can delete the partition and use it for swap, but i'd wait until you've rebooted successfully, just in case you need them again. There's also a program (ldlinux? loadlin?) to boot linux from dos, meaning you wouldn't need any disks, but would boot from the resc1440 image, but I've never used it. rick --