[RULE] slinky-0.5.03 for Fedora Core 4 FC4

[James Miller]

On Sun, 16 Oct 2005, Richard Kweskin wrote:

> Just a quick mention, also, that as almost everyone else in my lug uses 
> Debian, I borrowed a cd which does a basic install of Debian Testing 
> (less than 200MB of disk footprint, if I remember well) which includes 
> recognising the nic and allowing one to install (after a reboot) from 
> the lan/Internet using apt-get. If the same combination of additional 
> deb's are installed (apt, like yum, finds all the dependencies without 
> any further info from the user) as I mentioned above, the resulting 
> footprint is less than 600MB - compared to the over 1 GB with fc4. Of 
> course Fedora means much newer versions than Debian Testing of almost 
> everything, including the kernel 2.6.13, udev and others, but it is

You could have switched repositories from testing to unstable right after 
the base install to get more bleeding edge stuff. That's what I've done 
when I installed Debian like that on older hardware. It's very simple: 
just edit /etc/apt/sources.list, replace all instances of "testing" with 
"unstable" and then run apt-get update, then apt-get dist-upgrade. Last 
minimal install I did like that ended up being around 400-600 MB, IIRC. 
Same results as Ingo got for his Ubuntu minimal install attempt, as I 
recall.

James

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