[plug] bare bones linux for Pentium 100 with 32mb ram

[Anthony J. Breeds-Taurima]

On Thu, 1 Nov 2001, Daniel wrote:

> Hi Plug, I have installed Mandrake and Redhat a number of times (but I'm 
> not very familiar with Debian)
> 
> When I select the minimum files from their installation programs they seem 
> to give me a lot of unnecessary junk.

Under RedHat tell it you want a custom install and then select nothing.
This will get you what RedHat calls a default install.
Can't speak for mandrake.

> Is there somewhere I can find out a better way of installing the bare 
> minimum files to build a system?
> Is the Debian solution practical and lean? How does it compare?

Worth ago.  if you know Linux then you know linux.  each flavour can put
things in slighly differnt place.  This is getting much better with projects
like LSB.

> I want to start with those necessary to make a single user bootable command 
> prompt system, with a package update tool
> then move to
>   X11 and a light weight window manager
> and then
> add a wordprocessor, and later if it is not way too slow, a modem 
> connection and a browser.

Should all be doable.  for some definition of "too slow"

Yours Tony.

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