Re: [newbie] linux on a notebook

[H.J.Bathoorn]

On Thursday 19 April 2001 21:44, you wrote:
> The smallest distro I have heard of is Peanut Linux but it still
> needs 300 MB.
> http://www.ibiblio.org/peanut/
>
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> From: "H.J.Bathoorn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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> Subject: Re: [newbie] linux on a notebook
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Sorry about that, my own text got lost replying here. It read as
follows:


On Saturday 14 April 2001 10:24, you wrote:
> hello all
> i was wondering if i can fit mandrake on my legacy notebook
> (specifficaly the GUI)
> it has a hard disk of 115megabytes.
> can anyone tell me if this is possible? and if possible, how to
> accomplish this?
> im currently running w95 but that sucks big time
> thanx in front !


Cutting down on a Slackware distribution, I couldn't get much
lower han 90 Mb (including minimal Netscape) using Icewm as window
manager. The result was pretty spartan though. Excluding Netscape
and including a minimal Staroffice I could bring it down to 147
Mb, giving me sparse W95-like functionality --> Not worth the
bother I think.
You could try a minidistrib like Mulinux  or dragonlinux though.
groetjes.
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