Re: minimal system
On Thu, 29 Aug 1996, Mike& Candy List wrote: > can anyone advise a new debian user on a scenario in which a useable > system can be installed on a 120 meg hard drive with a 20 meg swap If this were my system, I would install linux, but not X. You didn't say, but I suspect that you are also low on memory and your swap drive is fairly old. If my assumptions are correct, and you installed X, your system would swap to disk often and slowly. Not fun. I like emacs, but I would learn to like vi if I had your system. If vi is too unfriendly, try some of the other small editors available in Debian. Virtual consoles (cntrl-alt-F1, cntrl-alt-F2, ...) and job control (cntrl-z, bg, fg, ...) can make a non-X system more fun. If the preceeding sentence is gibberish to you, send me private email and I will explain in more detail. Hope this helps Mike
Re: minimal system
> can anyone advise a new debian user on a scenario in which a useable > system can be installed on a 120 meg hard drive with a 20 meg swap > on another disk? If I can't use it for much then it seems that I would > be better off going back to microstuffit- not all bad but > thanks 1&allMike List Luxury! On a 20MHz 386 with 6MB Ram, 60MB Disk (8 Swap, 52 System) we ran: - fax server - source code repository - dial-in server - bug-report tracking No X-Windows or anything, but a very functional system and the hub of our development team at the time. Brian ( [EMAIL PROTECTED] ) --- Want to get it together? We can help! http://www.verisim.com/coordinator/
Re: minimal system
Please, don't threat with the microstuffit :-) Concerning your not very specific question here is my rule of Thumb: No matter how large your HD is you will end up filling it. seriously, you may want look at the Debian FAQ revamped recently (great job!) under any debian mirror in /doc/FAQ/ or in http://sgk.phast.umass.edu/FAQ/debian-faq.html Shortly, Yes. You can have more that a reasonable Debian installation with X and TeX and Emacs and "reasonable" space for home directories within 120MB + swap. lazaro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> __ Reply Separator _ Subject: minimal system Author: debian-user@lists.debian.org at cclink Date:29.08.96 10:41 can anyone advise a new debian user on a scenario in which a useable system can be installed on a 120 meg hard drive with a 20 meg swap on another disk? If I can't use it for much then it seems that I would be better off going back to microstuffit- not all bad but thanks 1&allMike List
Re: minimal system
At 12:03 AM 8/29/96 -0700, Mike& Candy List wrote: >can anyone advise a new debian user on a scenario in which a useable >system can be installed on a 120 meg hard drive with a 20 meg swap >on another disk? If I can't use it for much then it seems that I would >be better off going back to microstuffit- not all bad but >thanks 1&allMike List > You might want to be a bit more specific as to what exactly would make a system usable in your case. I use a Debian box for file and printer sharing, UUCP mail and news server, internet gateway and fax server. On my 220 Mb disk about 40% is used by the system. If on the other hand you need X, you are going to run out of disk space. But then, the latest graphical shells of 'microstuffit' will not fit either. Regards, Erik van der Meulen e: [EMAIL PROTECTED] p: +31 20 685 1618 f: +31 20 689 6569
