Well, I recently installed a Redhat system that took less than 300 MB or disk space. The system was built using several "spare" (this word doesn't even begin to describe it) hard-drives, all less than 1GB. There was a 50 MB boot partition on the first drive, otherwise all the space on all three drives were combined into a single Raid-0 partition. Redhat not only allowed me to install an entire system on < 1GB (total combine space was almost 900 MB), but allowed me to do it using a nice and easy to use interface. Really, if you are going to say something, you should have something to base it on. Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom wrote: > On Sun, Jun 30, 2002 at 10:58:44PM -0500, Shawn Fertch wrote: > > As to the install, it's been a while so I don't recall the specifics. > > Being presented with about 30 options of drivers, cards, etc, > > hmmm... I personally fail to find debian particularly hard to install. I > guess it probably doesn't choose your video card and auto-configure 3D > accelleration and all that other crap but... > > *I don't want it to.* > > what debian *doesn't* do, is install >1GB of packages just to build a base > system (see redhat). neither does it muck around with packages, adding its > own extensions, hacks and patches (at least not as many as RH does). > and the nicest thing about it: > > *you only have to install it once*. after that, just apt-get upgrade for the > rest of your life. > > I'll grant that RedHat 7.3 is probably a better choice for the newbie; > partly because it configures for the hardware pretty well; mostly because it > *does* give you all those extra packages... gives people a chance to learn > what packages they want/need/use. > > after that, they can install a base debian system, and apt-get install > packages as needed. > > Carl Soderstrom. > -- > Network Engineer > Real-Time Enterprises > www.real-time.com > _______________________________________________ > Twin Cities Linux Users Group Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > http://www.mn-linux.org > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > https://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list