Ooops, my mistake. I have a similar setup and forgot that about 1 gb was saved for
/home and /usr/local and swap.
Apologies to SuSe, it's not that bloated thankfully. Took a couple of hours though to
sort through all the packages, sift out what wasn't needed, and then make sure
dependecies were ok.
Does Deb come with like 14 text editors, a raft of window managers and multiples of
other packages, or is it a case of install the basic system and then install what else
you want? Choice is good, but its not always easy to figure out if package A does the
same as package B.
>>> Roland Turner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 17/08/00 12:46:43 >>>
Steven downing wrote:
> I tried SuSe 6.1 I had lying around, it ran quicker but I prefer Gnome, and
> I had to work hard to get it to fit into 2 gig, god knows what packages I
> got rid of and might want. Deb 2.2 is out and I'm not so afraid of 'getting
> my hands dirty' but after using Linux all of 3 months, am I taking on too
> much? <current front-runner> I know there are others, so sell me on the vitrues!!
You had trouble fitting SuSE onto 2GB? Yikes.
I install Debian in single a 500MB partition. /home and /usr/local (many
more GB) are placed elsewhere (another partition, another machine,
wherever). My Debain installation is not exactly lightweight either: in
addition to the dev tools (C, Java), X, Apache, GNOME and Communicator,
I typically have dozens of packages installed to look at, that I
routinely forget to remove.
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