Re: Preferred disk size for Linux

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From: John Summerfield
Date: Sat, 28 Jun 1997 00:00

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In <slrn5r10on.8p.gossamer@penguin.glasswings.com.au>, gossamer@glasswings.com.au (Bek Oberin) writes:

]I'll agree that you can't go wrong really if you get the biggest you
]can reasonably afford, but I think the lower limit is *way* lower
]than that.  I haven't had significant troubles with a setup in 400mb,
]and that's including X (which I tend not to install) ...

I have a useful Linux system on 170 Mb. Includes
   16 Mb swap pertition
   Xfree
   GCC
   Apache Web server
   Bind, NFS, Samba etc.

It's rather a tight fit tho.

Cheers
John Summerfield
Perth, Western Australia
OS2 support, IBM ftp search, LAN configuration info
   @ http://www.iinet.net.au/~summer/

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