RE: [aclug-L] stripped down Linux

[John Phillips <jphillip@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Which Monday ? The 5th would be tough. The 12th is probably do-able, the
19th better yet.

   I can put a Slackware install with 'C', Perl and Vim into less than 40
megs of harddrive space ( a sparten programming environment ).

  Unix 'C' is a little different from Micro$ 'C', especially the terminal
I/O.  Write your program so it's talking to an ASCII teletype and reading
from the same( no designing user input screens with fancy 
do-dads/colors ).

My home phone is 775-6272 with an answering machine. I will be in/out,
mostly out over this holiday.  Please call for help before it is a last
minute EMERGENCY. Projects don't seem to go well under those conditions.
I would be glad to help.

On Sat, 3 Jul 1999, Michael Holmes wrote:

> This has to be online by Monday, but I will send off to cheapbytes and get 
> the debian.  Will the one disk package work, or do I need to order more. 
>  This one may have to be dos  :-< , but maybe I can make more Linux.  We 
> have other PC based projects. An old PC and mouse was cheaper to do what we 
> wanted this time.  I need to learn to use the Linux compiler.  I am not 
> used to it, so when I have a pressing project, I run to ms.  After being 
> screwed by microsoft.  I want to do my part in facilitating their demise! 
>  If someone in a factory runs a Linux box all day, they may be inclined to 
> use it at home!  I just wish it was more friendly for the average person.
> 
> mike
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: John Goerzen [SMTP:jgoerzen@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Saturday, July 03, 1999 8:42 AM
> To:   aclug-L@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject:      Re: [aclug-L] stripped down Linux
> 
> Well, I'm running Linux on a 80MB HD for my router, with about 30 MB
> to spare.  This is with a fairly bare installation, obviously.  You
> can do this with Linux, although you'll have to do your compiling on a
> different box because gcc won't fit in 40MB along with the rest of the
> system.  For this, you'll need SlackWare or Debian.
> 
> -- John
> 
> Michael Holmes <maholmes@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> 
> > I need a CPU to monitor and save it to disk.  I am wondering if any thing 
> > of Linux would fit on a 40 meg HD?  The system I am thinking of consists 
> of
> > a ms dos 5.0 with a vc++ program to read clicks off of a wired mouse 
> (crude
> > but it is all I need)  I have a reed switch wired across the left and
> > another across the right mouse button, and I just need to record the 
> times
> > the switches are activated.  The system with either be a pc386 or a
> > pc486-25--el-cheapo.  But, I will only put a 40 meg unit in it.  Can 
> Linux
> > or a relative of it do the job.???
> >
> > mike
> >
> >
> 
> --
> John Goerzen   Linux, Unix consulting & programming   jgoerzen@xxxxxxxxxxxx 
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