[ale] Lightweight Linux with X

[jhubbs at telocity.com]

Stephan -

I follow your suggestions, but this machine is only going to be networked while it's at my house being set up - once it's in place, it's going to be as standalone as standalone can be.  

I do like the idea of installing to a bigger disk drive in any case.  What may be just as well for me, though, is to put a ~800MB or bigger drive in the very same machine, do the install like I want it using only one Linux partition, then use du -h to tell me what size drives/partitions I can utilize in the final product.  Using tomsrtbt and a supported NIC, I ought to be able to go from the original big drive to two or more smaller drives without doing a reinstall.

- jeff

On Mon, 30 July 2001, Stephan Uphoff wrote:

> 
> 
> Some suggestions:
> 
>     1) Minimal install on a system with more resources (Your Athlon should do 
> fine :-).
>            Copy the installation to the old machines by switching disks or 
> copying
>            the files to the 486 over the network (by booting them with the 1-2 
> floppy
>            network distros)
>            Add X and other packages ...
> 
>     2) RedHat 6.1 (6.0?) installed fine on a 7.5 MByte Laptop (as far as I recall)
>           
> 
>         3) Take a look at network booting and clusters.
>            Some cluster projects make it extremely easy to add/replace boxes.
>            ( And the failure rate of the junkers might make it worth to invest 
> some
>              extra time up front )
>            
> Good luck
> 
>     Stephan
> 
> > I know many of us are worrying about getting Linux SMP to work properly on
> > our octo-Athlon deep-red-MHz 16PB monsters, but I have a somewhat different
> > problem at hand.
> > 
> > I need to set up a junker for a new home school.  I have 486es on hand, with
> > 12-32MB and one or two 340MB-800MB drives available.
> > 
> > I'm pissed at Red Hat because they're pulling this "Sorry, your computer
> > doesn't have enough RAM to run Red Hat Linux" crap a la Microsoft even at
> > 20MB.  It looks like Debian is not complaining.  However, I don't have much
> > Debian experience and I'd like to know, in advance of trying to do it if at
> > all possible, how to install Debian from floppies via an Internet distro
> > mirror such that I can get X going and a low-footprint WM (open to
> > suggestions).  I have done Debian this way before and I did get a running
> > machine, but without X.  At that time, I also found myself a bit flummoxed
> > w.r.t. getting exactly the packages I needed and little or nothing else.
> > 
> > I expect to find and install various free edu software on this thing for the
> > kiddies and banish MS in the process.
> > 
> > Any general suggestions would be appreciated.
> > 
> > - Jeff
> > 
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