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RE: [LUG] To Roland Tarver - Small Linux distros



Keith!!!

LOL!

It's okay m8!

I do not (urgently) require a 'p' at the present moment!!!

Thanks for your amusing and detailed res<Alt+112!!!>onse!


- again sorry for short reply


Best wishes roly t

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From: owner-list@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:owner-list@xxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf
Of kam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: 11 September 2001 23:30
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Subject: Re: [LUG] To Roland Tarver - Small Linux distros


On Mon, Sep 10, 2001 at 10:13:33PM +0100, Roland Tarver wrote:

> What do you know (or anyone else that is) about booting linux from just a
> CD. Obviously it would run a lot slower. But it might mean that I could
try
> linux really easily and not get into issues about disk space?  - does it
> work this way? I don't know?

I've a Slackware CD that came with a book I bought a year or two ago that
can work that way. You need some hard drive space, but most of the stuff
runs off the CD. It really depends what you want, HAL91 designed for
rescue and getting a computer to network with other Linux boxes runs off
a single floppy. Before the days of CDs you installed the kernal and
essential utilities from about eight floppies. If you go to say
http://www.debian.org you should be able to download the disk images
along with a couple of DOS utilities you'll need.

> 128megs of memory
Lack of sufficient RAM was the main problem with running Linux in the past,
but this is not a problem for you.
> 170 meg disk (c:)
That would do for the basics, but not for the modern big applications
> 1Gb disk (bootable d:)
How much spare space??
> a Trust soundblaster16 compatible sound card
Hmm, the midi bit isn't supposed to work with Linux -- is that true??

> some crap 'standard PCI' graphics card
You'll need to figure out exactly what it is to get X running properly

> a key board with a missing "p" key! ALT+112 is my saviour!
Keyboards are £1 each in Plymouth, we can't have you going around dying
for a "p"

> I know, I know, I know! - I really _need_ 2 get a new system!!! Tehe!
Depends what you want to do with it. Provided you've got at least a 486
8meg and say 120 meg then Linux will scale to your needs.

Keith

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