On Wed, 2003-12-03 at 11:33, M A Young wrote:
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The absolute minimum presumably consists of a handful of key
packages
(such as kernel, glibc, initscripts) plus any dependent packages, which
prbably comes to 2-300 Mb, though this may be too minimal to do anything
with.
Not at all. Minimal installs are great on older machines where only a
couple basic services need to be offered. For instance an old 166MHz
pentium used for a gateway or as an SMTP relay.
-sb
Michael Young