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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