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On Friday 25 July 2003 4:48 pm, Prabhat Gupta wrote:
> Condon Thomas A KPWA wrote:
> >Prabhat Gupta wrote:
> >>Hi All,
> >>
> >>I am trying to install a minimal gentoo on an IBM Thinkpad 760XL.
> >>
> >>The laptop has 1.6G free space on ROOT partition. Currently I am
> >>bootstrapping the system.
> >>
> >>I want a minimal system to do some C++ development. I need GCC, make,
> >>CVS, shells.
> >>
> >>I also need minimal KDE.
> >>
> >>What should be my next steps after BOOTSTRAPPING?
> >
> >Since Gentoo comes up with multiple consoles using the F1-F6 keys why do
> > you need KDE?  If you really want a minimal system this would seem
> > superfluous.
> >
> >
> >In Harmony's Way, and In A Chord,
> >
> >Tom  :-})
>
> Hi Tom,
>
> Sometime it feels good to debug using DDD rather using plain gdb.
>
> Anyway my boss needs 4-5 of those junk laptops to demostrate compute
> farms and he need some graphics.
>
> I am looking for ideas to reduce the space requirment and also compile
> time. I have only 24 hrs left for this :(

You'll be lucky to get XFree and KDE compiled and configured on those old 
machines within 24 hours even if you have no problems.

Puggy
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