[rescue] Small Installs (was: SBUS expansion box)

[Kurt Mosiejczuk]

On Fri, 23 Nov 2001, Paul Sladen wrote:

> I've found Debian (www.debian.org) to be the best for small disk systems, it
> installs in about 50MB being usable from that point onwards; and even with
> the nice stuff--emacs, X, et al.--still keeps to 100MB-150MB... very
> comfortable on a 1gig disk.

> Work on the princple of only apt-getting (installing) things when you
> *actually* find that you need/want to use them.

Until I switched to OpenBSD, I ran a Debian firewall on an IPC.  The IPC
had a 207meg hard drive.  I gave it 50 meg swap, and still had 50 meg free
when I was done.  Granted, I compiled kernels on a different machine
(besides disk space, the IPC CPU and 24 meg makes for a LONG compile).

--Kurt