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Author: Carl Parrish
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Subject: Linux bloating.
Which version of RH are you using? I have at least 3 boxes here without
KDE or Gnome on it and they are running fine. When I was installing my
Router / Firewall I did find out that the min installation was *way*
more than I would have wanted it (around 350MB) but since its a 2 gig
Harddrive and I'm storing the log files on another machine I just let it
slide. There are distro just for small installs (The Linux router
project looks good).

Carl Parrish
www.carlparrish.com

On Thu, 2002-02-14 at 08:40, jtannenba wrote:
> This was easy in Debian..Did base install and apt-get
> the rest. Mandrake and RH don't seem to like to
> install without KDE and Gnome stuff. I left most of
> it
> off and still ran low on space. WE DO want to be able
> to use the system after it's installed right?
>
> I agree that Mandrake and RH should have a 'base'
> install with an easy to use 'rpm get' type prog. I
> haven't been able to get the MandrakeUpdateRobot to
> work without seg faulting.
>
> A base system without the Gnome and Kde stuff would
> be fine.
>
> Joe
> --- Brian Cluff <> wrote:
> > Sound more like your installs are bloated to me.
> > When you install your
> > system, only pick the stuff you will actually be
> > using and you will have an
> > install that is only a couple to a few hundred megs.
> > I've built servers with mandrake that were under 100
> > megs, and with mandrake
> > 8.2 you can have an install that is much smaller
> > than before.
> >
> > Ditch all those LDAP server and news server and
> > video games that require 3D
> > since you don't have the horse power to play them
> > anyway... etc...etc..
> >
> > Brian Cluff
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> >
> > > Noticed the last couple of installs, that at least
> > > Mandrake and RH 7.2 are getting bloated. I had
> > > trouble fitting them to 2 gig drives.
> > >
> > > Does anyone know where a person could pick up
> > around
> > > two or three 6 to 8 gig IDE hard drives cheap?
> > >
> > > I have an old p166 that won't recognize anything
> > over
> > > around 8 gig.
> > >
> > > Off list would be fine.
> > >
> > > Joe
> > >
> > >
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