[Rule-list] Distributing the distro

[Devon]

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On Monday 18 February 2002 04:07 am, ichi at ihug.co.nz wrote:
> Vik Olliver wrote:
> > It ocurred to me that a distro with such a small footprint
> > would be an ideal candidate for peer-to-peer updating.
>
> Small footprint?  So far, it appears you guys are talking about
> 200-300mb.  That may seem small to people with 10gig harddrives,
> but it's way too big for my 486-33 with 170mb HD.  I reckon you
> should be aiming for a base installation of no bigger than 80mb
> (including X, wm and graphical browser).

I can't see it happening in 80MB. With 16MB of ram, you'll want at least 
32MB of swap space, leaving 48MB for the system. I've gotten the 
installed size of the packages down to under 160MB, and can probably do a 
little more. However, that doesn't include XFree86 or any of it's 
dependencies.

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