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Re: PLEASE READ

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Fall)
Sun Nov 8 00:39:43 1998

Date: Sun, 8 Nov 1998 01:34:34 +0000 (/etc/localtime)
From: Greg Fall <gmf@dweezil.dyn.ml.org>
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> On Sat, 7 Nov 1998, Nitin Bhatia wrote:
> 
> >     Has anybody downloaded redhat 5.2  (full version) for i386, if so, how
> > big was it?

Easy on the subject line there, cowboy.  See

http://www.redhat.com/support/docs/rhl/RedHat-FAQ/

for your answer.  Don't panic.  It's not the kernel that takes up all that
space, it's the insanely huge pile of applications that comes with it, and
you can refuse any of those that you want.

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