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From: John Aldrich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Sunday, February 13, 2000 9:42 AM
Subject: Re: [expert] Should I?
> On Sun, 13 Feb 2000, you wrote:
> > I was just wondering....I just became the "proud owner" of a GW2K P5-75
with
> > 32MB RAM, 2 HDD's 540MB and 420MB. I would like to install LM on it,
should
> > I or is it not up for the task? If not what distro would you experts
> > suggest? Thanks to you all,
> >
> I'd say that would be BARELY enough drive space, and barely enough
> RAM for KDE/X. I'd want to upgrade the RAM at least...
> John
>
Yes, barely for ram, but adequate. Format the second disk to put the swap
space in the /hd*1 partition, the fastest part of the disk - you'll be using
swap often for X Windows. You might want to look at another window
manager/desktop that needs less ram.
There is a lot of stuff you can dump after you do a minimal install. Look in
the comps file on the CD and see what is installed in the base that you
don't need, then hunt it down and nuke it.Then add things as you need them.
Since you have another machine, it would be OK to delete the docs/ man pages
if you need the space.
It sure would be great if "minimal install" was an option. Hint. Hint. Hint.
Hoyt
