Re: [Cooker] Minimal installation of Mandrake [Re: 750 meg of cooker: how to divide?]

2000-08-31 Thread Pixel
Vadim Plessky [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Can somebody give me instructions how to make MINIMAL Linux install? (I mean, what packages are REQUIRED, so I can skip unnecessary) I will continue with current installation on this PC, but for another notebook (P/133, 16MB) would like to go with:

Re: [Cooker] Minimal installation of Mandrake [Re: 750 meg of cooker: how to divide?]

2000-08-31 Thread Vadim Plessky
Loooks like - yes, Perl is still needed by some packages. At least, I was not able to clean up it from my installation completely, but succeded with some minor perl-related packages. Perl is scripting language, right? And old-fashioned, not easy to use... I believe it can be replaced by

Re: [Cooker] Minimal installation of Mandrake [Re: 750 meg of cooker: how to divide?]

2000-08-31 Thread Benjamin Reed
Loooks like - yes, Perl is still needed by some packages. At least, I was not able to clean up it from my installation completely, but succeded with some minor perl-related packages. You won't get rid of perl completely, all of the installation scripts and such are written in Perl (stuff such

Re: [Cooker] Minimal installation of Mandrake [Re: 750 meg of cooker: how to divide?]

2000-08-31 Thread Pixel
Vadim Plessky [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Loooks like - yes, Perl is still needed by some packages. At least, I was not able to clean up it from my installation completely, but succeded with some minor perl-related packages. Perl is scripting language, right? And old-fashioned, not easy to

Re: [Cooker] Minimal installation of Mandrake [Re: 750 meg of cooker: how to divide?]

2000-08-31 Thread Geoffrey Lee
List-Subscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=subscribe%20cooker List-Unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe%20cooker List-Post: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] List-Owner: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Vadim Plessky [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Loooks like - yes, Perl is still

Re: [Cooker] Minimal installation of Mandrake [Re: 750 meg of cooker: how to divide?]

2000-08-31 Thread Vadim Plessky
Stephen and dear Mandrake, I believe 300MB is still too much. 100MB is my target, 150MB is absolute maximum. Recently I was re-installing Windows 98 Second Edition. 130MB put on disk (install cabs), then - setup.exe. And -Windows installed! Additional Compaq stuff (I have Compaq Presario 1800

Re: [Cooker] Minimal installation of Mandrake [Re: 750 meg of cooker: how to divide?]

2000-08-31 Thread Geoffrey Lee
Yo! [...] Stephen and dear Mandrake, I believe 300MB is still too much. 100MB is my target, 150MB is absolute maximum. You probably want to do some hacking around with the packages, and do some give and take. Recently I was re-installing Windows 98 Second Edition. 130MB put on disk

Sv: [Cooker] Minimal installation of Mandrake [Re: 750 meg of cooker: how to divide?]

2000-08-31 Thread Zeljko Vukman
:22 PM Subject: Re: [Cooker] Minimal installation of Mandrake [Re: 750 meg of cooker: how to divide?] Stephen and dear Mandrake, I believe 300MB is still too much. 100MB is my target, 150MB is absolute maximum. Recently I was re-installing Windows 98 Second Edition. 130MB put on disk

Re: [Cooker] Minimal installation of Mandrake [Re: 750 meg of cooker: how to divide?]

2000-08-31 Thread Vadim Plessky
On Thu, 31 Aug 2000, Pixel wrote: | Vadim Plessky [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | I believe it can be replaced by JavaScript, especially taking into | consideration that it is now has ECMA standard (ECMA script) | | do you know any JavaScript interpreter? i don't know any (except including |

Re: [Cooker] Minimal installation of Mandrake [Re: 750 meg of cooker: how to divide?]

2000-08-31 Thread Benjamin Reed
For sure, JavaScript is good for text processing. JavaScript was created as answer to Microsoft's VBScript, derivative of Visual Basic. And Basic is very strong in strings manipulations. Unless it has changed, VB and JScript both are weak in string manipulation compared to Perl (at least,

Re: [Cooker] Minimal installation of Mandrake [Re: 750 meg of cooker: how to divide?]

2000-08-31 Thread Anton Graham
Submitted 31-Aug-00 by Vadim Plessky: I believe 300MB is still too much. 100MB is my target, 150MB is absolute maximum. On a target machine with 1 GB hard drive? Recently I was re-installing Windows 98 Second Edition. 130MB put on disk (install cabs), then - setup.exe. And -Windows

RE: [Cooker] Minimal installation of Mandrake [Re: 750 meg of cooker: how to divide?]

2000-08-31 Thread Don Krause
Not liking perl is one thing, to each his own. But replacing perl with javascript? Now that's so funny I almost barfed Dr. Pepper all over my keyboard! G. -- Don Krause [EMAIL PROTECTED] Systems Administrator [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Cooker] Minimal installation of Mandrake [Re: 750 meg of cooker: how to divide?]

2000-08-30 Thread Thomas Poindessous
On Tue, Aug 29, 2000 at 11:29:32PM +0400, Vadim Plessky wrote: goshh, You are happy guy - probably, equiped with xDSL or cable modem! I am wondering how long it will take to download on 56k modem :-( My question is opposite, to qulified LINUX GURU's. Can somebody give me instructions