Re: Why so big?
On Aug 20 2001, dman wrote:
> I agree with this. I had a gateway system setup on which I manually
> picked the packages and it only used ~120MB. I'm sure several of that
> were used by /var/cache/apt/archives -- whenever you 'apt-get upgrade'
> a copy of the .deb file is cached in that directory.
And even 120MB is quite a lot. I've used to install packages
on computers with 8MB of RAM to act as gateways and printer
servers with HDs of 119MB, including swap in that amount.
Of course, the intention wasn't to use a micro-distribution,
but to keep Debian and all its functionality. Otherwise, it
would be easy to use busybox, a smaller libc version and
getting things on just a floppy.
My point is that even with a Debian install, one can get a
functional install to be just about 60MBs or less if you
remove appropriate packages.
[]s, Roger...
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