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Re: Minimum hardware
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ramon Gandia)
Mon Nov 30 19:59:05 1998
Date: Mon, 30 Nov 1998 15:58:08 -0900
From: Ramon Gandia <rfg@nook.net>
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No quotes!
I think a fully functional Linux system -without X- can be
built for a 386 with 4 mb ram.
However, the way RedHat is distributed, and given its automated
installation from a script on CDROM, it would not be possible
to install it directly into such machine.
You would have to install it on a Pentium, recompile the kernel
for a 386, and then strip all the uneeded stuff: X, X libraries
(which install even on a non-X system), a lot of docs and man
pages on uninstalled components, fonts galore, useless term
info and so on.
It would take a bit of experimenting. One of my computers is
set up as a RedHat 4.2 DNS server, and without any problems I
got the hard drive requirements to 36 mB. I am sure I could
get it down to 12 mb without much hassle.
There is an outfit called the Linux Router Project
http://www.linuxrouter.org which puts everything on a pair
of floppies; or a single floppy formatted to 1.7 mb. Their
system is based on Debian, I believe.
In truth, Slackware is probably better suited for this because
it installs from the bottom up, rather than RedHat which
installs from the top down.
But like you all....I am partial to RedHat, not the others!
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