[ILUG] Ideal disk partition configuration?

[Thomas Ribbrock]

On Thu, Mar 09, 2000 at 01:51:53PM +0000, John P. Looney wrote:
> > I have two small hard drives (270MB and 220MB or so) on a 486.
> > I would like to make the most use of the disk space I have (I know,
> > I really should buy a larger hard drive, but it's "Linux on a shoe-string").
> 
>  And it should be possible. Seeing as it's a small/old system, don't
> bother with fancy new stuff like glibc.
> 
>  See can you get a hold of some RedHat 4.x install discs, and use those.
> Install as minimal as you can get away with. It should end up around 50MB,
[...]

Just as some reference point: Earlier this year, I revived a 386 as a
firewall/dial-up/masquerading machine and managed to get Red Hat Linux 5.2
installed in less than 150MB. That machine has no NFS, though, as the only
access is through ssh. Also, there is no X. On the other hand, it does have
some extras you won't need, like possibly ssh, mason and masqdialer and I
didn't remove every single unnecessary RPM, I think (so there's room for
improvement). So, yes, it's definitely possible.

Cheerio,

Thomas
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