Distributions - was Re: [plug] Red Hat 7

[Bret Busby]

Matt Kemner wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 26 Sep 2000, Bret Busby wrote:
> 
> > How can we get the CD's?
> 
> You're in Armadale, right?
> Is Hilton too far away for you?
> If not, contact Chris Crawford, and arrange a set through him.
> (chris at bizzpro.com.au)

Anne works in Perth, during the daytime.

> 
> Or turn up to one of the meetings and arrange a set with myself, or
> someone else, beforehand.
> 
> > Is there any problem, installing Debian using NFS, using a CD drive in a
> > computer that is not running Debian?
> 
> Shouldn't be a problem.
> 
> I'd say it would be easier to just borrow an IDE CD-ROM from one of
> your other systems though (if you have one)

The problem is that, in a 486, the controller for the CD Drive, is
required to be a soundcard based one, I think; being a 486, it has VESA,
not PCI. The CD ROM controller is not part of the IDE controller card.
We got a soundcard, to try to operate the CD, but it doesn't work.

> 
> > Also, how much hard disk space is needed?
> 
> What do you want to do with it? :)

Find out what it's like to use :)

Probably, put some stuff on it, like GNOME, Netscape, gcc, g77, Anne
might want flex and bison ( I think that's the yacc one), etc. 

> 
> The linux gateway servers I build tend to use 100-150MB
> WASP's servers each have about 300MB installed
> My workstation's 13GB drive is almost full :)
> (Of which probably 1G or so in Debian packages, the rest is just my
> assorted "crap")
> 
> > computer, from memory, it took about 800MB, apart from the swap
> > partition. That was setting it up to be used as a development
> > workstation.
> 
> I think you'll get change out of that 800MB with a "development
> workstation" Debian install.
> 
>  - Matt

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Bret Busby

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