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[Matrix Mole <matrixm AT sdf.lonestar.org>]

On Wed, 26 May 2004 3aoo-cvfd AT dea.spamcon.org wrote:

> > the packages that may be needed (perhaps they assume the
> > downloader has a fully installed system
>
> That is precisely the reason.  The vast majority of Linux
> users have a big installation of Linux (a gigabyte or more)
> that includes all of those things.

Are the full isntalls still only aonly about a gig in size? I remember
back in 2000 installing a version of linux that at the time took well over
a gig for the full install.

> > For those wishing to do a large number of compiling and development,
> > would it be easier to have a completely seperate system that is
> > strictly used for that purpose with all the slakware/d1 packages
> > installed?
>
> If you have room, there is no good reason not to do everything on
> one system.  However, in my case, my HDs are relatively small so
> I run the compiler on a second machine and transfer just the
> finished binaries to my main machine.

That's the senario I was considering as well. I expected that if you had
enough HD space (3-5GB should be adequate, but one never can tell) then
having it all on one system is no problem, but if you have limited space
(at most 1GB as most BL users have I believe) then a seperate system/HD
designed for development may be more in order. I'll keep that in mind as I
put stuff together and rip it apart again.

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