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In <1992Apr6.214524.11635@athena.mit.edu> Barr3y Jaspan writes:
>What is the smallest useful OS/2 v2 system that can be created purely from the
>installation program?  It is unreasonable to have to manually delete
>individual files in order to achieve an advertised "minimum configuration."
>
>--
>Barr3y Jaspan, bjaspan@mit.edu
>


I never stated that this was the "advertised minimum configuration" for V2.
What I stated was this was an "excercise" for those that wanted/needed a
smaller system that that that could be installed through the disks.  If you
use the install disks, the "minimum" system is about 18-19M.

There are a number of "special" situations though where a lot of what is
installed even on a "minimum" system is not needed.  For example let's say
you're setting a LAN server to run OS/2 V2.  There's no reason for this to
have games or on-line documentation; it could but it's certainly not needed.
All you really need is a basic 32-bit system that can run your Server Code
and any 16- or 32-bit supporting code.

That's not to say that the OS/2 V2 install process couldn't be made more
flexible so you could tell it not to install a lot of things that now
come with the basic system.