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John Ziele wrote in a message to Mike Bilow: J > I was wondering if there was a Linux version that would take J > less than 210 megabites of hard space. I am a Freshman at J > Wilton High School in Iowa. And we have been playing with a J > new release of Linux, but I don't have enough space to J > install it. I would like a version that takes less than 210 J > mb, just so I could experiment with it and learn the basics J > of this beautiful Operating system. I have tried to dwnld J > some versions of Linux but the way some of these FTP's sort J > out there files, confuses me. I was wondering if you could J > help me out. If you can I would greatly appreciate it!!! Many Linux CDs come with a "live filesystem." This allows you to run Linux from a very minimal configuration, using just a boot floppy, a swap partition on the hard drive, and a CD, without actually installing. Of course, since CD is a slow medium, system performance will be painful. I can tell you that I recently installed Red Hat Linux 4.0 from CD onto an old 386DX-25 with a 210 MB HD. First, I partitioned the hard drive into a 180 MB main partition and a 30 MB swap partition. Then I ran the install, opting not to install kernel source and the C compilers necessary to build a kernel from source. I did elect to install XFree86. When the dust cleared, I ended up with about 45 MB free on the main partition. I could have gotten away with a smaller swap partition, but the machine only had 8 MB RAM and I didn't want to push my luck. The machine runs quite well, and is even fairly snappy in X/Windows. -- Mike
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