On Mon, 9 Apr 2001, Thomas Ribbrock wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 08, 2001 at 08:03:26AM -0400, John Aldrich wrote:
> > I'm anticipating the usual "RedHat" bloat. ;-) I've got to
> > confess I've never TRIED to install a minimal system, so I
> > don't know if it can be done. I've heard that you can do it
> > with 3-500 megs...
>
> Well, you could always try one of the *BSDs (particularly OpenBSD - made for
> such a job!) if you fear bloat... ;-)
>
If you don't need X, you can install in about 30-50M (that's not a
typo--it is thirty to fifty megabytes).
And let's face it who "need"s X anyway? :-)
If you decide to go that route, RedHat is the last distro you may want to
consider, use either Slackware and/or Debian.
Personally I have installed Slackware (without X) in less than 40 meg, and
RedHat v3.0.3 (with X) in about 180 meg. Of course I only installed X
itself, and not much other X stuff (no Mozilla, no StarOffice, no
Gnome, no KDE, no ...; only X, FVWM and a few other goodies)
Hossein
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