<quote who="Kenneth Burgener">
David Smith wrote:
I have always loved Debian for this kind of setup. I usually use the testing distribution, to avoid the massive updates in unstable and the old package versions in stable. The install footprint is small for a minimal install, around 200Mb, and even a 90Mhz processor with 48Mb RAM was enough for my little Debian testing box. Go with stable if you don't mind having older versions of php/mysql, because the security updates are available more quickly.
Good luck!
Do you only need CD 1 for a minimal install?
I have been trying to download the CD ISOs all day, and BitTorrent is dragging at 100KBps. I finally decided to go for FTP as I was getting better performance at about 300KBps. If I only need CD 1 to test out Debian, I would rather do that...
Yes, you only need one CD. I usually find the smallest netinst with a 2.4 kernel (this was about 2 years ago), and use that. Try it here:
http://www.debian.org/CD/netinst/
This one (unofficial) is only 186MB:
http://ftp.fi.debian.org/debian-minicd/woody-i386-1.iso
--Dave
Never mind to the missing email comment. It just took 10+ minutes to make it to my Inbox. The reply didn't. Strange.
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