[aclug-L] Re: Tiny distribution for Gateway Nomad 386 Mhz

[Donald King <donald@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri 08 Mar 2002 09:33, David Wibowo wrote:
> I have a laptop 386 Gateway (Nomad). I'm planning to install Linux using
> tiny distribution. I'm planning to use this for some programming I need
> (gcc, java, and HTML, PHP or JSP, Apache, MySql) and personal checking
> program.
>
> do any of you know any good (& tiny) distribution which can run X window
> and capable of have apache install (only for off line)
>
> do any of you know any personal checking program which can print personal
> size check and able to calculate amount before the check clear. (GUI or
> not is OK)
>
> thanks
> David Wibowo
>
> NB: my hard drive space is about 20 MB
>     I don't need internet connection from that laptop (no modem or
> network card)
>
>

I have to agree with Dale, there's no way to cram ALL of that into 20MB of 
disk space.  Java is the biggest culprit here, sucking up about 60MB for 
the JDK 1.3.1.  GCC is another hog, requiring approx. 10-15MB or so of disk 
space.  However, you should be able to shoehorn in an older distribution of 
Slackware (circa Slackware 3.6 or so), a copy of Apache, perhaps XFree86, 
and just maybe an install of MySQL.  At that point, you WILL be out of disk 
space, so you'll have to think hard about what you plan to do with all 
those installed programs.

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