Re: Install on small HDD

From: Mikhail Zotov (_at_)
Date: 01/16/05


Date: Sun, 16 Jan 2005 12:20:27 +0300

Dr Balwinder Singh Dheeman wrote on Friday 14 January 2005 05:51:
>> Can Knoppix be put on a hard drive or are there better Linux distributions
>> for this purpose which are as user friendly? The only other one I have
>> which I have never dared to install is the Mandrake 10.1 from Personal
>> Computer World which says it is only an upgrade to an already existing
>> installation of 10.0.
>
> No again, because of a limited space available on your hard drive; you
> may install any distro excluding X and most of GUI apps, that mean you
> will have to live with CLI only.

I am afraid this is not quite correct. For example, Slackware live CD
contains X and certain network tools but only occupies ~80Mb.
The same is try, say, for DSL and BBC.

--
Mikhail


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