On Fri, Jul 24, 1998 at 10:13:11AM -0600, Young, Ed wrote: > > I'd like to put Linux onto a Toshiba T2100 Satellite laptop with 120Mbyte > harddrive. I believe it's a 486sx. It has 8 megs of ram so I don't care to > run X. I'd like to put on a minimalist installation but I need to have some > emacsen, gcc. Optional but highly desireable is Octave, Perl. I'll be > installing the base with floppy disks, but will be installing the rest from > a parallel zip drive, if possible. > > I want to use it for a numerical analysis class so it needs quite a few > utilities, but we'll have to see how much I can fit on it. > > My questions are: > What is the best way to install?
I do a base install, then put the packages I want on the zip disk and do "dpkg -i" from there. In fact, I have written scripts to do that for me since I have a "basic build" I want on several machines. > I can't install all the recommended stuff because that is just too big. My > tentative plan is to put base on it, see how much space is left, add emacs > with no x, add octave, and Perl. I'll need about 5 or 10 megs for user > account space. > > Can anyone who has had a similar situation or experience comment? Here's what my T2105CS looks like. It has 12MB of RAM and I've upgraded the HD to 1.3GB, of which about 300MB is used for Linux. This installation provides a very usable machine for me. This is hamm, from around the time it went beta. [EMAIL PROTECTED] uname -a Linux lapHamm 2.0.34 #1 Thu Jul 9 21:41:19 PDT 1998 i486 unknown [EMAIL PROTECTED] df / Filesystem 1024-blocks Used Available Capacity Mounted on /dev/hda8 302463 95179 191662 33% / [EMAIL PROTECTED] du -s /usr/src/ 31696 /usr/src I have kernel and pcmcia source taking up a fair chunk of space. You could replace that with emacs, maybe. ;-) [EMAIL PROTECTED] dpkg --list Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge | Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed |/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad) ||/ Name Version Description +++-===============-==============-============================================ ii adduser 3.8 Add users and groups to the system. ii ae 962-20 Anthony's Editor -- a tiny full-screen edito ii at 3.1.8-2.1 Delayed job execution and batch processing ii base-files 2.0 Debian Base System Miscellaneous Files ii base-passwd 2.0.3.3 Debian Base System Password/Group Files ii bash 2.01.1-3 The GNU Bourne Again SHell ii bc 1.04-4 An arbitrary precision calculator language. ii bin86 0.13.0-4 16-bit assembler and loader ii binutils 2.9.1-0.2 The GNU assembler, linker and binary utiliti ii bsdmainutils 4.2 More utilities from 4.4BSD-Lite. ii bsdutils 4.2 Basic utilities from 4.4BSD-Lite. ii cpio 2.4.2-16 GNU cpio -- a program to manage archives of ii cpp 2.7.2.3-4.7 The GNU C preprocessor. ii cron 3.0pl1-45 management of regular background processing ii data-dumper 2.07-1.1 Store and retrieve perl data structures ii dc 1.04-4 An arbitrary precision reverse-polish calcul ii debianutils 1.9 Miscellaneous utilities specific to Debian. ii diff 2.7-16 File comparison utilities ii doc-debian 1.8 Debian Manual, FAQ and other documents ii doc-linux 98.03-1 Linux FAQ ii dpkg 1.4.0.23.2 Package maintenance system for Debian Linux ii dpkg-dev 1.4.0.23.2 Package building tools for Debian Linux ii dpkg-ftp 1.4.9.6 Ftp method for dselect. ii dpkg-mountable 0.7 Enhanced access method for dselect ii e2fsprogs 1.10-17 The EXT2 file system utilities and libraries ii ed 0.2-16 The classic unix line editor ii elvis-tiny 1.4-5 Tiny vi compatible editor for the base syste ii fdflush 1.0.0-12 A disk-flushing program. ii file 3.24-4 Determines file type using "magic" numbers ii fileutils 3.16-5.2 GNU file management utilities. ii findutils 4.1-28 utilities for finding files--find, xargs, an ii gcc 2.7.2.3-4.7 The GNU C compiler. ii gpm 1.13-5 General Purpose Mouse Interface ii grep 2.1-8 GNU grep, egrep and fgrep. ii groff 1.11a-2 GNU troff text-formatting system. ii gzip 1.2.4-27 The GNU compression utility. ii hostname 2.04 A utility to set/show the host name or domai ii iamerican 3.1.20-0.2 An American English dictionary for ispell. ii info 3.9-5 Standalone GNU Info documentation browser ii isapnptools 1.13-3.1 ISA Plug-And-Play configuration utilities. ii ispell 3.1.20-0.2 An interactive spelling corrector ii kbd 0.95-16 Linux console font and keytable utilities. ii kernel-image-2. 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