[Soekris] net4801 and hard drives

[Richard Gooch]

Bill Maas writes:
> A few years ago I managed to extract a fully-fledged RedHat 7.3
> text-mode only server install from all the blah that RedHat wanted
> to put onto my disk. Which was indeed tedious manual labour, because
> I wanted to do it without breaking dependencies, so I wouldn't have
> to use the rpm -f option while installing. With RH 7.1 I succeeded,
> but with RH 7.3 it failed because printer support required fonts
> which required X11 which requires .... (repeat until system runs KDE
> || GNOME || both).

Ug!

> 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?;)

Debian Sarge system running bind, sendmail, collection of milters,
automount, sshd and standard text/file/shell utils:

Filesystem           1k-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda2               193427     94264     97198  50% /
none                     63560         0     63560   0% /tmp
/dev/hda3               631004     37976    561228   7% /var
/dev/hda5               126931     19345    101187  17% /var/log
/dev/hda6                22958     13206      9521  59% /home

				Regards,

					Richard....