[plug] P75 & Linux

[Russell Keith-Magee]

> > If you do a minimal install on either distro
> > and then add only the packages you need, RedHat would not take
> any more space
> > than Debian.
> I don't agree - not unless its changed between RH7.0 and RH7.3. I found
> debian to have much more "fine-grained" package selection and fewer
> dependencies defined ("suggests" and even "reccomends" can be left out
> with debian - not with RH where its either a dep or not). I was able to
> get a usable debian system in 300MB where RH had taken up over 550MB for
> the same functionality, and I was pretty new to debian.

Given that the discussion is about installing on old/low end machines,
here's a warning from someone who recently got bitten by RH 7.3: You can't
(or at least, I couldn't) install it on a machine with <=16 MB of RAM. Just
after the kernel boots, and you get into the RH installer, it throws up an
error saying it wont install on such a puny machine (or something to that
effect :-).

I'm happy to be proved wrong on this one, but I ended up having to fish out
an old copy of 6.2 to do my bidding on my old P120, 16MB machine.

Russ %-)

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Dr Russell Keith-Magee
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Calytrix Technologies
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