On Thu, 15 Mar 2001, wakks escay wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm building my linux box to configure omy computer:
>
> AMD K6-III 500 mhz
>
Wow! where'd you get a K6-III!!! ? That's an extinct specie today, given
that AMD stopped pushing it a long while back..
> ASUS Socket 7 motherboard
>
> 64mb RAM
>
> Nvidia M64 TnT2 32 MB Video Card
>
> 1.8 GB partition linux space on /dev/hda4
>
> 50x cdrom
>
> 56k modem
>
> Sampo 14es monitor
>
> floppy disk
>
> Is there a way to make a base minimum install with RH 7 so that i can install make
>an optimized
> environmnet for the following use
Don't use Redhat 7. It's buggy. Especially for development. You don't
want to use redhat 7. The compilers a buggy beta, its a wonder it was able
to compile the actual distro, much less itself!!!
>
> 3d/2d Graphics (manipulation etc/games opengl, povray)
> Programming C/C++ , Php Java(more on web based)
> Web Development ( internet, website design )
>
> I'm planning to run:
>
> xfce
> povray
> blender
> gimp
> text editor
> netscape
> abiword
> xpdf
>
>
> All under 100 to 200 install?
>
> Can anyone recommend anything? Should i change my distro? Dos RH 6.2 make a base
>minimum install since
> RedHat 7.0 does this but its 195 megabytes! I need somthing i can build on!
>
I don't think 200MB is doable. More like thrice or four times that is a
good value.
> Something that will install ONLY base minimums!
>
> Lastly...
>
> Something thats conpatiblw with the kernel 2.4.2 since i want to configure my
>system to use my scanner
> and usb printer =).
>
Mandrake 7.2 is 2.4 ready, but you'ld have to pop in the kernel yourself
(or grab a kernel RPM).
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