[ILUG] Minimal Desktop / Workstation Install [long by now !]

[Liam Bedford]

On Thu, 13 Jun 2002 07:56:12 -0700
Rick Moen <rick at linuxmafia.com> spouted:

> Quoting Liam Bedford (lbedford at netnoteinc.com):
> 
> > eh? I have an install script that kickstart could reproduce (I do other
> > things, so I use my own script), and with kde and all the gnome libs,
> > mozilla, X, etc installed, it comes to < 700M. (Of course, I use
> > the --exclude-docs flag to rpm, so that saves a bit, and there
> > are no man pages).
> 
> Seriously, "no manpages" isn't very practical.  If you could figure out
> a way to gain just those back, you might be on to something -- but don't
> forget that he also wants OpenOffice.org to fit on the same system.
> 
if anyone's interested:
 Filesystem           1k-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
 /dev/hdb3              9321616   1634448   7213656  19% /
 shmfs                   192116         0    192116   0% /dev/shm
 /dev/hda5               192736     76216    116520  40% /data3
 /dev/hdb2              9645676   4058572   5097124  45% /home

that's a newly installed SuSE 8 machine, with full KDE3 and StarOffice 5.2.

add to that swap, and you're just out of space on a 2G drive, but I haven't
tried to optimise for space at all (it has KDE, WindowMaker, MWM, etc) on it.

(there's 223M in /usr/share/doc, and I'm sure ghostscript could be done away with,
and just use a central print server...)

L.
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