[Rule-list] minimum rule install

James james at opencountry.org
Thu Mar 28 10:06:23 EET 2002


On Tue, 26 Mar 2002 22:17:53 -0600
hairylarry at deltaboogie.com wrote and hopefully I read right:

> Hi,
> 
> I've been working on the concept of a minimum rule install. This 
> would be a text only install designed to provide a menu, file 
> management, text editing, email access, ftp, and internet browsing

> on systems with small hard drives.
> 
> Devon reported a slinky install that takes 248 meg. PC 19 is a 486

> with a 220 meg hard drive. Could unnecessary programs be trimmed 
> from this install so it would fit in 220 meg? What is the absolute

> minimum size of the install without unwisely crippling the system?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Hairy Larry
> 

This sounds like a paper and pencil type job... If I could get a
copy of rpm -qa on the box with the 248 install I can start checking
out what needs what and see just how far down I can get it without
having to rebuild rpms. 

James

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