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On Sun, 23 Feb 1997, John Ziele wrote: > I was wondering if there was a Linux version that would take > less than 210 megabites of hard space. Although it's true that the popular distributions of Linux will take a lot of hard disk space if you install everything, it certainly isn't necessary to do that. You can do a selective install, leaving out stuff that you don't want. Candidates for omission: 1. X Windows. 2. Programming languages that you won't use. 3. All the programming tools, if you don't plan to do development. (Note that you do need GCC if you want to build a kernel.) 4. Games. 5. Emacs. 6. Optional utilities. 7. Extra shells. Make sure you install bash and tcsh; the rest can go. A fairly minimal Linux system that I installed on a system destined to be used as a router took up less than 30MB of hard disk space, and I could have been even more agressive about eliminating stuff if there had been a need.
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