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- From: ranck@joesbar.cc.vt.edu (Wm. L. Ranck)
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- Subject: Re: Two new 220 installs: what can I delete?
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- Date: 14 Aug 92 14:06:20 GMT
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- mbeckman@mbeckman.mbeckman.com (Mel Beckman) writes:
- : I'm setting up two brand new 220's, each with 32MB RAM and 400MB disk. I
- : ordered the machines preloaded, and the machines arrived with only 20MB
- : free disk space! The preload stuff, plus a 64MB paging space, takes up
- : 380MB!
- :
- : I want to delete stuff, but I don't know what is safe to toss. Both machines
- : have CDROMs and the InfoExplorer CD. I think that means that I can delete
- : all the InfoExplorer stuff, right? Or do I have to leave a little bit on
- : there to access the CD?
-
- On my 220 I had pretty much the same problem. After making sure that I had
- access to the install images via an NFS connection I deleted everything in
- inst.images directory. I would be *very* *sure* that you have a way to get
- to those files somewhere before doing this though. It does a nice job
- of freeing up space.
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- * Bill Ranck DoD #496 ranck@joesbar.cc.vt.edu *
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