On Tue, Sep 11, 2001 at 01:20:57PM -0500, Glenn Becker wrote: > Hi, > > I just won a Toshiba 470CDT Pentium laptop on eBay. It has a 2G HD. > > Am thinking of shrinking the Win98 installation down to a minimum and > partitioning so as to squeeze Debian on there. Alternately (if this is > possible), I'd like to go DOS only + Debian. > > Has anyone done this, or any combination thereof, with this or a > comparable machine? Should I just wait until I can afford a laptop > with a larger HD? >
I had a dual-install of Win98 and Debian on a 490CDT with 3.8GB. It worked fine, but things started getting a little crowded after a while so I eventually just bought a 20GB drive to save the hassles. Now I don't have to worry abouyt space :) /usr took up about 700MB as I recall, including X. Obviously, that depends on what exactly it is you have installed. You could probably pare it down to 400MB, say. > Any problems I should be prepared for with this particular beast? It might be easier to install Linux on the one partition rather than splitting between /, /usr, /home etc. One problem I had was that /var kept getting full, so I had to make symlinks to directories in other partitions from time to time. > > NB I live in Brooklyn NY and work in Manhattan. Got home a couple of > hours ago once the trains started opening back up. Many people I know > either worked in the WTC or saw the towers fall. Send your good > energies to this beleaguered island, if you can. > Eeek ;( Good luck, Drew -- PGP public key available at http://dparsons.webjump.com/drewskey.txt Fingerprint: A110 EAE1 D7D2 8076 5FE0 EC0A B6CE 7041 6412 4E4A
