Hello Tom,
> > Jim,
> >
> > I would be interested to know how you did this, and what packages you
> ended up
> > with. I am interested in a character-based system with perl on it, to use
> as a
> > portable terminal to run a cue-cate scanner to catalog my books, and I
> have an
> > old toshiba l
On Sun, Apr 15, 2001 at 01:24:07PM -0700, J Hayward thoughtfully expounded:
> Hello,
>
> Having some free time today I decided to try and see how small an
> install I could do of RH 6.2 (could not find an old 6.1 disk). I took an
> old pentium computer, installed only a floppy, cdrom, video card,
Hello,
Having some free time today I decided to try and see how small an
install I could do of RH 6.2 (could not find an old 6.1 disk). I took an
old pentium computer, installed only a floppy, cdrom, video card, 2.1GB
hard drive. I created a single 127mb root partition, no swap, and
managed an in
On Sun, 15 Apr 2001, Steve Fernandez wrote:
> > > I need to install RH 6.x on a system using a small (128Mb)
> > > IDE FLASH drive. I cannot use a regular hard drive since
> > > this system will be placed in a high altitude balloon with
> > > no presureized or heated cabin for the hard drive
Matthew Saltzman wrote:
> On Fri, 13 Apr 2001, J Hayward forwarded:
>
> > I need to install RH 6.x on a system using a small (128Mb)
> > IDE FLASH drive. I cannot use a regular hard drive since
> > this system will be placed in a high altitude balloon with
> > no presureized or heated cabin
Linux can easily do this - just not RH. Take jailbait for example
(jailbait.sourceforge.net) that fits on a 16MB flash disk, including X,
netscape, and a graphical mail client. This leaves 112MB for data
collection:)
charles
On Fri, 13 Apr 2001, J Hayward wrote:
> Hello everyone,
>
> This mess
J Hayward wrote:
>
> Hello everyone,
>
> This message was posted on the comp.os.linux.setup newsgroup. I thought it
> was interesting. Anyone know how small an install of RH 6.x is possible?
>
> Regards,
> Jim H
>
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>
> Subject: RH installed
On Fri, 13 Apr 2001, J Hayward forwarded:
> I need to install RH 6.x on a system using a small (128Mb)
> IDE FLASH drive. I cannot use a regular hard drive since
> this system will be placed in a high altitude balloon with
> no presureized or heated cabin for the hard drive.
Cool.
> Fo
Quite frankly I would try this with BEOS or something with a smaller kernel.
I know there is a Linux that has been made for Palm's, etc. This should be
small enough, but I have no idea where to get it.
Paul Anderson
J Hayward wrote:
> Hello everyone,
>
> This message was posted on the comp.os.
Hello everyone,
This message was posted on the comp.os.linux.setup newsgroup. I thought it
was interesting. Anyone know how small an install of RH 6.x is possible?
Regards,
Jim H
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