On Wed, Oct 31, 2001 at 06:59:47PM +0000, Rob Bradford wrote: > On Tue, Oct 30, 2001 at 10:53:12PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: > > | Users who are installing Debian onto smaller systems and who only > > | require the only a basic system will be pleasently suprised to find that > > | the base system is now smaller than in the previous release of Debian > > | GNU/Linux. > > > > Did someone actually check this? I just said it *might* be so. > > Why would i ever doubt you Joey? :) > > I dont have the bandwidth capabilities to test this here, can someone please > check this and inform me. >
As far as disk space needed to install, we revised that from 75MB to 100MB. Some of that is taken up by debs that are later deleted. I think since the new system downloads all the debs first, rather than unpacking packages directly from a tarball, it requires more working space, not less. But that's just for a network install. From a CD, I don't think that logic applies. -- *----------------------------------------------------------------* | .''`. | Debian GNU/Linux: <http://www.debian.org> | | : :' : | debian-imac: <http://debian-imac.sourceforge.net> | | `. `'` | Chris Tillman [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | `- | May the Source be with you | *----------------------------------------------------------------*
