linux in 6gb

From: Douglas H. Quebbeman <dquebbeman_at_acm.org>
Date: Wed Apr 24 13:44:31 2002

> > From: Pat Finnegan [mailto:pat_at_purdueriots.com]
>
> > For a more suitable install, I can easily install everything I really use
> > (between X windows and a few apps, gaim for IM, kernel source so I can
> > recompile my kernel, gcc and related stuff) in 1G or less of space.
>
> I'll go with the "or less." I have personally put Linux, X11, GCC, a few
> apps, etc, along with a swap file (that worked very slowly) on 60MB of a
> 95MB zip disk.

My first Linux box was a 40MHz 386-DX (AMD) with 4MB of RAM and a
pair of 40MB Seagate ST-251s... downloaded a piece at a time from
the UNC sunsite onto floppies and installed from them I used the
UMDOS filesystem, since the machine normally booted into DOS 5;
I used LOADLIN to load Linux (still do on my workstation at home).

My first kernel build took 27 hours. After a series of builds,
I think I got the total build time down to about 16 hours.

Eventually, I copied that system to a single 120MB Seagate IDE
drive and ran that on a 486 for a while. One day, on a whim,
I brought that drive into work and installed it in a 233MHz
Pentium (one).

Kernel build time: 15 minutes.

;)

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