Re: New hardware advice please...

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From: Ian Stirling
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1998 00:00

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In demon.tech.unix A S Measures <alastair@camel.demon.co.uk> wrote:
: In article <35DC894D.69B6203B@josep.demon.co>, Tim Joseph
: <tim@josep.demon.co.uk> writes
:>4. Internal IDE (ATAPI) Zip Drive
: Yes - works fine though use fdisk to check the partitions
: as the MSDOS one seems to appear as partition 4 !  On one
: ZIP disk - I removed the MSDOS partition and replaced it
: with ext2 and installed RedHat 5 however I couldn't quite
: squeeze X11 onto it !!!

You weren't trying hard enough.

I've had X up and running on 30Mb before.
The key is to not install what you don't need.

ls -l |sort -k5
is your friend.

Do you need XV, or will zgv do, do you need x11perf, do you need four window
managers, ...

Then run it for a while, move the files that you don't use (man find)
and carry on running, tuning it to the files you use.

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From: Ian Stirling <000035DDD9DA.NO_UCE@mauve.demon.co.uk>
Subject: Re: New hardware advice please...
Date: 1998/08/21
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