Some what recently, Friedemann Schorer <Friedemann.Schorer@gmx.de> wrote about minimal installation >:) Hi all :-) >:) I'd like to install Debian on an old 486 machine which only has a >:) little 500 MB HDD. Is it possible to install a really _minimal_ >:) system from debian disk and CD's (e.g. a preformed profile), which >:) runs only the services that are really needed and then can be >:) upgraded ? I tried it before with a RH distrib, but it didn't work. >:) Right now I don't have the Deb CD's, so I can't read docs or so, >:) that's why I ask here. I used to squeeze slink into IPC with 100MB HD with minimal X support. So don't worry. Chanop -- ,-----------------------------------------------------------------------------. | Chanop Silpa-Anan <chanop@writeme.com> | | Australian National University | | Tel. +61 2 6279 8826, +61 2 6279 8837 (office hour) | | +61 2 6249 5240 (home +voice mail) | | Debian GNU/BSD ICQ uin 11366301 | `-----------------------------------------------------------------------------'
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