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Title: Ok ive got two days, gimmy a distro
Post by: Doogee on 29 December 2002, 14:36
ok ive got 600megs left of download for the next 2 or so days on ADSL im hopin to download a ~200-~300 meg distro to whack on an old pentium 90 with 32 megs of RAM or i can download now and wait a few weeks and ill have a nice p2-266 to install on, either way i need distro suggestions. thanks alot
Title: Ok ive got two days, gimmy a distro
Post by: Doogee on 29 December 2002, 14:42
peanut linux is lookin good so far for the 266 machine
Title: Ok ive got two days, gimmy a distro
Post by: Interscope on 29 December 2002, 18:59
You might want to try Debian. I used a network installation. All you need is 2 floppies. I needed about 800mb free space and all I had to download was 250-300mb. And that was for a desktop installation.

You might want to check it out.
Title: Ok ive got two days, gimmy a distro
Post by: Master of Reality on 29 December 2002, 21:36
Evil Entity (http://undeadlinux.com).
(note: the bolded period)

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Title: Ok ive got two days, gimmy a distro
Post by: Calum on 29 December 2002, 21:54
if it was me i'd do that debian suggestion.
Title: Ok ive got two days, gimmy a distro
Post by: preacher on 29 December 2002, 23:59
Slackware
Title: Ok ive got two days, gimmy a distro
Post by: Doogee on 30 December 2002, 02:29
quote:
Originally posted by ThePreacher:
Slackware


not a chance, one slack iso was like 600+meg.
Title: Ok ive got two days, gimmy a distro
Post by: Master of Reality on 30 December 2002, 02:33
Evil Entity is based on slackware, its only 450Mb (i'm pretty sure)

[ December 29, 2002: Message edited by: The Master of Reality / Bob ]

[ December 29, 2002: Message edited by: The Master of Reality / Bob ]

Title: Ok ive got two days, gimmy a distro
Post by: Doogee on 30 December 2002, 02:36
EvilEntity looks great, but its f a r too big. about 519megs

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Title: Ok ive got two days, gimmy a distro
Post by: TheQuirk on 30 December 2002, 03:31
Meh, ZIpSlack.
Title: Ok ive got two days, gimmy a distro
Post by: Doogee on 30 December 2002, 04:45
hmmm zipslack looks tantalising. EXCEPT i dont want to HAVE to have it as umsdos. isnt there some kinda etx2/3 version maybe?
Title: Ok ive got two days, gimmy a distro
Post by: Calum on 30 December 2002, 04:48
well isn't zipslack designed specifically to use on a fat partition? you need real slackware to do it on ext2 don't you? maybe evil entity would be best like the man said.
Title: Ok ive got two days, gimmy a distro
Post by: TheQuirk on 30 December 2002, 05:02
quote:
Originally posted by Calum:
well isn't zipslack designed specifically to use on a fat partition? you need real slackware to do it on ext2 don't you? maybe evil entity would be best like the man said.


You don't have to have fat, because I heared of people installing a distro fromZipSlack (e.g they install ZipSlack ad then addon packages, etc.)
Title: Ok ive got two days, gimmy a distro
Post by: choasforages on 30 December 2002, 05:05
whats with the 600meg limit ive hit atleast 3.5 gig's in a months, and that is being very conservitive
Title: Ok ive got two days, gimmy a distro
Post by: Doogee on 30 December 2002, 05:08
its australia, its telstra. we get a 3 gig limit and weve used lots but we wanna get right up near the boundary to make the most of our limit.
Title: Ok ive got two days, gimmy a distro
Post by: Calum on 30 December 2002, 05:10
i understand completely.
Title: Ok ive got two days, gimmy a distro
Post by: SAJChurchey on 30 December 2002, 07:52
The only distro i've ran on a machine that old is SuSE 7.2 on a 200MHz machine, but I'm not sure if you have enough RAM to run GUI.

It comes w/ a lot of packages that can do a lot of things that you never thought possible w/ a 200 MHz machine in this day and age.
Title: Ok ive got two days, gimmy a distro
Post by: Doogee on 30 December 2002, 21:35
err actually i got mandrake 9 to run quite well on my p266. but dads got that one at the moment and hes giving me 64 megs of ram in return so ill have a p2-266 with 96 meg of ram. i beleive that is sufficient.
Title: Ok ive got two days, gimmy a distro
Post by: beltorak0 on 31 December 2002, 00:50
ZipSlack requires installation to a UMSDOS file.  It was designed for newbs who are shakey about messing with the partition stuff (ala fips).  I think 2 gigs is the limit of the file.

DragonLinux is based off ZipSlack and 2 gigs is the limit.  It is also the first distro i tried -- but never got working...  tis why i went with slack proper anyway, and i am much happier for it.

-t.
Title: Ok ive got two days, gimmy a distro
Post by: pkd_lives on 31 December 2002, 23:05
Try this out.

Linux-Antarctica (http://www.linuxantarctica.com/)

The gzip is 250MBs.
Title: Ok ive got two days, gimmy a distro
Post by: preacher on 1 January 2003, 00:55
quote:
Originally posted by SAJChurchey:
The only distro i've ran on a machine that old is SuSE 7.2 on a 200MHz machine, but I'm not sure if you have enough RAM to run GUI.

It comes w/ a lot of packages that can do a lot of things that you never thought possible w/ a 200 MHz machine in this day and age.


I have mandrake 9 on my 200mhz right now. It runs xwindows faster than my 433mhz because I decided not to use the resource hog kde, and use windowmaker instead.
Title: Ok ive got two days, gimmy a distro
Post by: Doogee on 2 January 2003, 07:40
quote:
Originally posted by Linux Frank:
Try this out.

Linux-Antarctica (http://www.linuxantarctica.com/)

The gzip is 250MBs.



Thats looking pretyty good, ill have to upgrade the kernel though (not hard when Voids BS is around)

also fuckms is on the links on the lin-antarctica site.
Title: Ok ive got two days, gimmy a distro
Post by: edustind on 12 January 2003, 06:16
freebsd should fit.
Title: Ok ive got two days, gimmy a distro
Post by: Doogee on 12 January 2003, 12:55
no its not to do with anything "fitting" i have alimit of ~300megs to download. anyway yeah help us out please is there anyway i could make "Doogee Linux" out of parts of red hat n shit?
Title: Ok ive got two days, gimmy a distro
Post by: jtpenrod on 13 January 2003, 11:26
quote:
no its not to do with anything "fitting" i have alimit of ~300megs to download. anyway yeah help us out please is there anyway i could make "Doogee Linux" out of parts of red hat n shit?
Give Linux From Scratch (http://www.linuxfromscratch.org) a look-see. This might be what you're after.

 
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Another benefit of LFS is that you can create a very compact Linux system. When you install a regular distribution, you end up installing a lot of programs you probably would never use. They're just sitting there taking up (precious) disk space. It's not hard to get an LFS system installed under 100 MB. Does that still sound like a lot? A few of us have been working on creating a very small embedded LFS system. We installed a system that was just enough to run the Apache web server; total disk space usage was aproximately 8 MB. With further stripping, that can be brought down to 5 MB or less. Try that with a regular distribution.

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Title: Ok ive got two days, gimmy a distro
Post by: Doogee on 13 January 2003, 14:58
LFS : So can i just download the parts i need or do i have to download it all and install the only the parts i need?
Title: Ok ive got two days, gimmy a distro
Post by: Calum on 13 January 2003, 15:21
looks like you must read through the instructions and decide for yourself whether you need each package or not.

You might prefer to use BYO Linux.org (http://byolinux.org/required.asp) which has a list of required/optional files to give you more of a clue of what you need/want/don't need to download.