[Sussex] Laptop challenge

[Steve Dobson]

Gavin

On Mon, Jan 30, 2006 at 01:10:47AM +0000, Gavin Stevens wrote:
> I was given a free laptop yesterday (Sat.), which was nice.

How nice for you.

> I think that the floppy drive could be essential for my challenge of
> getting Linux onto this fine little machine (120MHz Pentium, 16MB EDORAM
> expandable to 48MB, 1.2GB HDD).
> 
> My ideal would be to have an installation of DamnSmallLinux, or maybe
> Debian if I could slim it down enough.

There is no need to "slim down Debian." Debian can install very light if
you don't selected anything in the task select screen (slide 67 of your
talk).

My firewall (Soekris 4801 233MHz i586, 128MB & 3G HDD) was installed
this way and look at it's disk useage:
  # df -h
  Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
  /dev/hda2             1.6G  183M  1.3G  13% /
  tmpfs                  63M  4.0K   63M   1% /dev/shm
  /dev/hda1              85M   12M   69M  15% /boot
  /dev/hda3             1.5G   67M  1.3G   5% /var
  tmpfs                  10M  616K  9.4M   7% /dev

And my very old P1 100MHz 48MB name server is even smaller:
  # df -h
  Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
  /dev/hda1             237M   41M  185M  18% /
  tmpfs                  23M     0   23M   0% /dev/shm
  /dev/hda3             237M  172M   53M  77% /usr
  /dev/hda4             1.4G  610M  729M  46% /var

Of course neither of these machines is running any kind of graphics
environment.  Your can install the bits of the X11 system that you
need.  There are a few packages you need to get you going - these
are the ones I can remember - xfonts-base xfonts-75dpi xfonts-100dpi
xserver-xfree86 xbase-clients xterm.

Steve
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