Hi All,
I reached a compromise solution. Removed PCQ Linux. Installed
good old RH 6.1
with minimal KDE installation. Installed StarOffice 5.1. Now left with 220
MB free space.
Even printer installation was less troublesome than PCQ Linux 7.1. It was a
cinch.
Anyway , Thanks for the advice.
Regards
N S Srikanth
ISRO, Trivandrum
----- Original Message -----
From: "USM Bish" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Saturday, November 17, 2001 6:06 PM
Subject: Re: [LIH] Installing linux programs on FAT 32 FS and using them
> On Sat, Nov 17, 2001 at 01:11:49PM +0530, N S Srikanth wrote:
> >
> > I installed PCQ Linux 7.1 with a dual boot option (Win95)
> > on a 900 MB partition. Now I see I have only 230 MB free
> > space.
>
> This is a very small bit of space (under 1 GB for the whole
> thing ... This would be adequate to runc console apps with
> freedom, but the moment you add "X" and all the bells and
> whistles, you'd find it is owefully short ... About 2 GB is
> the bare min if you are considering large apps.
>
> > I would like to install Star Office (it needs 150 MB). In
> > Windows I have 470 MB free space (This is a 3 GB HDD).
>
> Dual Boot on a 3 GB HDD, would always leave you cramped for
> space from both the OSs. The full Star Office is about 176
> MB ( 150 MB for minimals only). Better to drop the idea.
>
> > I have mounted Win Drives in Linux on /mnt directory.
> > From inside Linux is it possible to install Star Office
> > from rpm package on the windows partition and use it from
> > Linux?
> >
>
> Yes, possible, but with your space constraints it would not
> be worth it. You can mount the Win partition as UMSDOS, and
> create a Linux directory under it. You should have UMSDOS
> support compiled in your kernel. It is to be mounted from
> /etc/fstab with rw access .. The UMSDOS docs gives details.
> You could mount this UMSDOS partition as /opt and install
> any Linux software and run from it. It may be worth ment-
> ioning that most of the distros which run directly from
> Win/ DOS partitions use this method.
>
> HTH
>
> Bish.
>
>
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