[aclug-L] Re: Project suggestion

[Jonathan Hall <jonhall@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hmmm... Then I must have done something wrong, b/c I have X installed and
fully functional in under 120mb

/dev/hdb1             297397  119677   162360     42%   /

A single partition for the entire Linux OS, including X Windows on a 340mb
HD.  Less than 120mb is actually used as you can see above.



On Sat, Jan 15, 2000 at 02:33:32PM -0600, Michael Holmes wrote:
> What about starting a project on install scripts for LINUX
> 
> I know they are already out there, but if you have low hard drive space,
> like most non-rich people do (older computers ) To solve dependencies,
> you must first install stuff with the development packages, then once
> installed, remove the development packages, and then install the rest of
> the stuff.  This is the only way to make linux with x-windows to fit
> under 600M. X windows installs with just 24.3 meg, but, it's
> dependencies cause you to load an additional 242 meg in development
> software!
> 
> I was also wondering, is there a listing of what each package is on the
> disk, other than the actual install program.  Something you could just
> pull up and sort through, or pull up on an editor?
> 
> Mike
> 
> 

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