Mandrake 7.2 - Hardware problem?

[Brian Cluff]

Just use whatever distro that you want.
Then I would suggest that you uncheck just about everything on that machine
to start with, and then start adding to it after the minimal install.
The debian people will tell you to use their distro, but in reality debian
will just make you start out the same way. Although the default install of
debian is much smaller that any default of the others, but thats for the
most part due to the lack of any X install.

Brian Cluff
----- Original Message -----
> I installed this baby on another machine with 15.3GB and had no problem. I
> didn't realize this install would need so much space. Even though I could
> selectively install packages, I guess I wanted more than I could have! Any
> recommendations for a smaller Linux distro to load on the machine below?
> Thanks for the input!
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Bufo" <toadvenom@home.com>
> To: <plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us>
> Sent: Friday, November 17, 2000 7:11 PM
> Subject: Mandrake 7.2 - Hardware problem?
>
>
> > Hi,
> > I have had nothing but problems trying to get this program installed and
> > running. Do I not have enough hard disk space? Does anything else about
> this
> > configuration look questionable?
> >
> > Dell Optiplex DGX 5166
> > Pentium (r) 166MHz
> > 64MB RAM
> > EISA BUS
> > SCSI HD ST31230N 1010MB
> >     and NEC CD-ROM 502
> >     w/ Adaptec AHA-2940 controller (card)
> >     and Symbios Logic 53C810 controller (on board)
> > ATI Graphic Pro PCI display adapter atim64-GX
> > 15" Digital monitor PCXBV-HZ
> >
> > Thanks for any ideas, help, or web sites to check out.
> > Robert
> >
> >
> > Oscar Wilde observed: "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world.
The
> > unreasonable man persists in trying to adapt the world to himself.
> > Therefore, all progress depends upon the unreasonable man."
> >
>
>
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