Re: Ready to join the club..

[Kent West <westk@acu.edu>]

Paul Johnson wrote:

>On Saturday 22 October 2005 03:57 pm, Ian Cavnar wrote:
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>>I'm hopingthat you mean 60 and 80 GB, as 140MB is nowhere near enough to
>>install Debian and have anything useful for a newb on there.
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>Not true.  Just depends on the newbie's situation.  Case in point, I switched 
>because I couldn't stand the thought of replacing a defective Windows CD just 
>to reinstall an OS on my 386 back in 1997.  18MB RAM, 120MB disk.  It's one 
>hell of a squeeze, and you'll probably have to trip /usr/share/doc to make it 
>fit, but it works.
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I think the operative phrase was "for a newb"; I wouldn't expect a newb
to be able to do this squeezing of which you speak.

But I understand your sentiment, and agree.

-- 
Kent