On Sun, Jan 13, 2002 at 11:52:08AM -0800, Linux Rocks ! wrote: > I have some p120 laptops w/24 megs ram, and they play mp3s just fine > unfortuantely All the laptop hard drives I have are really small ( less than > 400 megs) and the mp3s are on cd, not the hard disk > So... Ive only got windows98 running on them right now. I tried to put slack > and mandrake,. but neither installs would install from the cdrom (it does > find the cd during boot, but the install wont find the cd. If I can manage, > Ill have to try a net boot... but thats a hassle and I have to try to make a > system under 300 megs, and I want it to be atleast as nice and usable as the > windows98... which is going to be a lot of work.... I can live with KDE, but > would prefer gnome, and Enlightenment would be the best... but they only have > 24 megs ram.... maybe Ill do a LFS thing
Just for kicks, I untarred OpenBSD's base30.tgz, etc30.tgz, man30.tgz, game30.tgz, comp30.tgz, misc30.tgz, xbase30.tgz, xfont30.tgz, xserv30.tgz, and xshare30.tgz in a temporary directory, then copied the GENERIC kernel there ... `du -sk .` = 280506, about 273MB. Then "cd usr/local" and untarred pkgs for: ORBit-0.5.8 bzip2-1.0.1 cdparanoia-3.a9.7p2 control-center-1.4.0.1 enlightenment-0.16.5 esound-0.2.22 fnlib-0.5 freetype-1.3.1 gconf-1.0.7 gdk-pixbuf-0.10.1p1-gnome gettext-0.10.40 glib-1.2.10 gnome-core-1.4.0.4 gnome-libs-1.2.13 gnome-vfs-1.0.1 gtk+-1.2.10p1 gtk-engines-0.12 imlib-1.9.11 jpeg-6b libaudiofile-0.2.3 libghttp-1.0.9 libglade-0.17-gnome libiconv-1.7 libungif-4.1.0b1 libxml1-1.8.16 oaf-0.6.5 png-1.2.0 popt-1.5.1 scrollkeeper-0.2 tiff-3.5.5 now `du -sk .` = 350640, about 342 MB considering Win98 doesn't have a compiler (and it's actually rare that you *need* to compile a kernel, since we have ukc), we'll remove comp30.tgz: % for i in `tar tzf comp30.tgz`; do sudo rm $i; done now `du -sk` = 301603, about 294 MB and since our video card is supported by XF4, we don't need the 3.3.6 servers: % for i in `ls usr/X11R6/bin/XF86_*`; do sudo rm $i; done now `du -sk` = 272051, about 265 MB for a fully functional system, with enlightenment/gnome to boot! (And there's still more we can remove, like the whole misc30.tgz, and XF86Setup ... down to 258 MB ;) And it installed from a single floppy .... -- <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
