Linux bloating.

[Paul Dickson]

On Thu, 14 Feb 2002 10:29:06 -0800 (PST), jtannenba wrote:

> RH 7.2--Was surprised because I had 6.1 on a 2 gig and
> had LOTS of space left for working space.
> Joe
> --- Carl Parrish <cparrish@cox.net> wrote:
> > 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). 

When I installed RH 7.2 on my router, the installed complain that RH 7.2
required about 450 MB MINIMUM to install.  I ended up with a 950 MB
installation since I allowed Gnome to install.  It lacks KDE and any
compilers on that system, but these aren't needed.

	-Paul