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["Krzysztof A. Suchecki" <christopher.suchecki AT wp.pl>]

James Miller wrote:

> Excuse me for butting in, but I highly recommend *against* putting RedHat 
> on those systems.  I have some recent experience with this.  I set up a
> Pentium 75 for myself recently with a 600MB HD and 32MB RAM using RH 6.2.  
> immediately after the install, the hard drive was 90% full! 

You did a full install. As with all full installs, they eat too much:

Full Slack 3.5 = nearly 400 MB lost
Full Slack 3.9 = nearly 700 MB lost

Bare RH 6.0 eats about 100-150MB AFAIR.
But I managed to lower it to 70-80MB.
Of course you may tweak it and comes to sth larger than BasicLinux.

At math department of my ex-university, in 1999 they used RH 6.2 
and Win 3.1 on 500MB HDDs, some early Pentiums, with Netscape 3.04,
Mathematica, Octave, some TeX and Ghostscript and gcc.


Chris
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But after I made the symbolic link to modprobe (I think at
least it was ) and rmmod it did not protest any more.  I
cannot remember installing modutils. How could I check?
Ans where can I check the symbolic links I have made?

  Ad>Constant Brouerius van Nidek wrote:
  Ad>>
  Ad>> I had also to make a symbolic link for modprobe

  Ad>There is no modprobe in busybox.  If you need modprobe,
  Ad>you should install the modutils package from Slack71.
  Ad>It is in the /slakware/a9 directory.

  Ad>If the pcmcia package needs these things, then I
  Ad>probably
  Ad>should be recommending that pcmcia users install
  Ad>modutils
  Ad>first.

  Ad>Cheers,
  Ad>Steven


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