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Ok ive got two days, gimmy a distro
« 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

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« Reply #1 on: 29 December 2002, 14:42 »
peanut linux is lookin good so far for the 266 machine

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« Reply #2 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.
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« Reply #3 on: 29 December 2002, 21:36 »
Evil Entity.
(note: the bolded period)

[ December 29, 2002: Message edited by: The Master of Reality / B0b ]

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« Reply #4 on: 29 December 2002, 21:54 »
if it was me i'd do that debian suggestion.
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« Reply #5 on: 29 December 2002, 23:59 »
Slackware
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« Reply #6 on: 30 December 2002, 02:29 »
quote:
Originally posted by ThePreacher:
Slackware


not a chance, one slack iso was like 600+meg.

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« Reply #7 on: 30 December 2002, 02:33 »
Evil Entity is based on slackware, its only 450Mb (i'm pretty sure)

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« Reply #8 on: 30 December 2002, 02:36 »
EvilEntity looks great, but its f a r too big. about 519megs

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« Reply #9 on: 30 December 2002, 03:31 »
Meh, ZIpSlack.

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« Reply #10 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?

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« Reply #11 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.
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« Reply #12 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.)

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« Reply #13 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
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« Reply #14 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.