[Soekris] net4801 and hard drives

[Bill Maas]

On Thu, 2006-11-23 at 10:11 +0100, Bill Maas wrote:

[...]
> Anyway, I can't imagine that you really need 1.5 GB of RH/Fedora install
> on your Soekris. Maybe switch to some OS that doesn't assume that you
> are going for the graphical desktop on a 2 GHz PC?;)

Correction:
I mean: an OS or distribution. There are excellent small Linux distros,
and Debian is also very text-mode friendly.

> On Wed, 2006-11-22 at 16:23 -0600, Wayne Walker wrote:
> > On Wed, Nov 22, 2006 at 11:04:18PM +0100, Bill Maas wrote:
> > > On Wed, 2006-11-22 at 13:12 -0800, William Estrada wrote:
> > > > Wayne,
> > > > 
> > > >   I have installed Redhat and Fedora twice on my 4801.  It is a lengthy process
> > > > due to the under powered 4801 (266mhz).  
> > > 
> > > Or "inefficient RedHat/Fedora/RPM", depending on how you look at it.
> > > OpenBSD installs in minutes on a net4801.
> > How much, some bare minimum ?  I did a complete 1.5 GB install including
> > all the development tools I will ever need, apache, mysql, ...
> > 
> > > 
> > > Bill
> > > 
> > > 
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