On Thu, Oct 04, 2001 at 07:39:21PM -0500, Christian T. Steigies wrote: > A user has a Mac with a 200MB harddisk. The disk has three partitions, 100MB > for MacOS, 80MB for linux, 20MB for linux swap. And maybe 8MB of ram, so no, > the swap partition can not be used for /var or added to / (this is not the > typical m68k hardware, but there are also people who want to install linux > on 4MB macs...) i tend to think CD installation is the only possible option in these circumstances, unfortunatly debootstrap copies files from the CD to /var/cache instead of just using them directly. (that could and should be fixed). > He downloads the macinstall.tar.gz (6MB) and basedebs.tar.gz (20MB) on his > mac partition and then starts the installation. Up to the point where the > first debs from basedebs.tgz (or from the network) are installed, 50MB on > his linux partition are used, so he has 30MB free space left. basedebs are what? what is using 50MB? the kernel? i don't think so. the basedebs.tgz is on the HFS partition not the ext2 partition (and its never copied to the ext2 partition). -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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