"I can't tell you what to select" Why? Microsoft dose... OK that's a cheap
one.
My wife looked over my shoulder while I was working at the prompt and said "
What's that?" I knew then pine was out of the question. If someone has an
idea for a snappy little X mail RPM please advise.
Thanks Tim...
This list is a life saver!
----- Original Message -----
From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, November 19, 1999 9:55 AM
Subject: Re: Small Red Hat 6.0
> I can't tell you what to select. To me, reading mail with netscape
> seems like killing a flea with a pile-driver.
> But then, I don't like GUI anyway.
>
> I wouldn't bother with X at all, although I can fit a small X system on
> less than 80mb, so you have room for it if you want it. You don't need
> every X server, only the one for the video that's on the machine, and
> VGA16 if you want to us XF86Setup. I don't know what Xconfigurator
> needs. You probably don't need fonts for languages you don't know.
>
> I think RH install expects to find its RPM's in a directory named
>
> RedHat/RPMS
>
> Case is SIGNIFICANT! You will need to use fstype vfat for the win9x
> partition in order to preserve case.
>
> You need _at Least_ 4mb RAM for a RH install. That means if you have a
> 4mb machine you have to disable shadowing in the BIOS, or get more RAM
> or a BIOS that will let you disable shadowing.
>
> Sorry, that's about all I know about RH, Small Linux, or Peanut
> install :-)
>
> If you need help with Slackware...
>
> If you can quote error messages, maybe someone can help more. I just
> can't get my teeth into
>
> > I've tried Small Linux, Monkey, and Peanut but I can't seem to get them
> up
> > and running from the hard drive.
>
> Lawson
> >< Microsoft free environment
>
> This mail client runs on Wine. Your mileage may vary.
>
>
> On Thu, 18 Nov 1999, Timothy T. Payne wrote:
>
> > I have a NEC 486/75 laptop with 500+ MB of disk space but no CD-ROM.
> To get
> > RH on the drive I'm using a Win 95 partition to copy from another
> machines'
> > CD drive, I'll be deleting it once I'm up and running. My question is
> of
> > the 400 MB of RPMs what can cut it down to. I'll only be checking
> email
> > using Netscape, and getting used to using Linux, while I pretend to be
> as
> > excited as he is about my 3 year olds favorite move, for the 10th time.
> > I've tried Small Linux, Monkey, and Peanut but I can't seem to get them
> up
> > and running from the hard drive.
> >
> > Tim
> >
>
>
>
>
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