Re: Oops. 1 Gig Recommendation 2nd try.
Yes, it appears that I am installing higher level packages that
eat up a lot of room. The development tools was huge and included
things like perl, and several things I hadn't heard of. Perhaps I
just needed to break open these packages and pull out the
specifics.
Is the crash when I put it into the laptop more likely because of
the lack of a swap partition or because of the foreign hardware
config?
Yes, I picked KDE because it wasn't as big as gnome. Any
recommendations on the best petite graphical interface?
Finally, you offer advice as if it doesn't matter whether I use
Mandrake or Debian. Is that your opinion? Or are you just being
magnanimous not to discourage?
Thanks,
RF
Richard Flood
San Antonio, TX
---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
From: "nate" <debian-user@aphroland.org>
Date: Mon, 5 Aug 2002 08:26:29 -0700 (PDT)
><quote who="Richard Flood">
>
>> 1) I used the CDs for Mandrake 8.0 because I had them handy. I
>> haven't acquired the Debian disks yet. I don't have a good
>> understanding of the comparison of these, but I had serious
>> trouble installing the necessary packages to accomplish my
goal. Does
>> Debian require less overhead to run X, or am I just stuck
>> with a console box?
>
>how did you install the machine? from what i hear mandrake has
>a "minimal" install that takes up a mere 60-80MB. from there you
>can add packages to support the rest of the system.
>
>> Any guidance on how to get the programming tools, emacs editor,
>> and X on the same box without clogging up all 1 GB? I suspect
the
>> MAndrake packages were just a bit heavy and perhaps Debian's or
>> someone else's would be more petite.
>
>should be pretty easy if your not using gnome or kde, those I
think
>take up quite a bit of space, but even with them it should still
>be possible. i have a laptop with 12GB, and excluding /home and
>/usr/local i am using just over 1GB and I have a TON of stuff
installed,
>lots of devel stuff, no emacs(never used emacs), X, afterstep,
>mozilla, netscape, opera..tons.. a little over 450 packages.
>
>if your using debian, start with a minimal install, that is don't
>install anything but the base. get the system working then use
>apt-get to install the individual packages that you want. you
>can speed up the process by installing higher level packages such
>as if you wanted X and planned to use afterstep, apt-get install
>afterstep and that should install a bunch of the X software as
>well(not all of it though).
>
>i would think you can run it in under 500MB pretty easily of
>course it depends on how much devel stuff you want
>
>nate
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