Hello
Sean
picasso@madflower.com
Tue, 9 Jan 2001 13:34:45 -0500 (EST)
you can use linuxrouter and it runs off a floppy if you just want floppy
support =) I have heard of people getting netbsd on a <80meg drive before,
but granted no X or dev libs and probably a smaller version of what is
currently shipping.
On Tue, 9 Jan 2001, Mike Rambo wrote:
> "Wu, Hu-Hwa" wrote:
> >
> > How small of a hard drive can you install RH 6.2 on ??
> >
> > or FREE BSD for that matter ??
> >
> > -Hu
> >
>
> Can't say about BSD - Ed???
>
> Even for RH that's kind of a loaded question. What do you want the
> machine to do when you're done? We have a bunch of machines we use for
> DHCP servers and in a few cases include some token ring to ethernet
> routing capability that install easily on a 540MB drive. I _think_ it
> might go as small as 420MB but I haven't checked that. You can fit
> things like Samba, Appletalk, and the DHPC server stuff with no
> problem. NFS is there though we don't use it, same with Apache.
> Basically you get no X and no apps. For a full Redhat install you'll
> need at least a 1GB drive IIRC. I could be wrong though - you're
> probably best off to go to http://www.redhat.com and see.
>
> --
> Mike Rambo
> mrambo@lsd.k12.mi.us
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