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- From: peter@global.hacktic.nl (Peter Busser)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
- Subject: Re: THE MOST TASTELESS OS (MSDOS)
- Message-ID: <1358@global.hacktic.nl>
- Date: Thu, 27 Aug 92 10:50:41 GMT
- References: <1992Aug21.231603.3615@darwin.ntu.edu.au> <1@global.hacktic.nl> <92237.001559M05BC@CUNYVM.BITNET>
- Organization: Global Village 1
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- Spartacus at Cuny <M05BC@CUNYVM.BITNET> writes:
-
- [I said "get Linux"]
- > Hmm, how many megs required for a Linux installation?
- >I never had any experience with Unix and I'm curious to try
- >out. I like Linux price already ;-)
- It requires an ISA or EISA system with at least a 386SX and 4M RAM. I don't
- know about disk space, but I have still >20M free on my 64M Linux partition.
- And I installed several goodies, like Emacs and it's info files, UUCP and News,
- which consume considerable amounts of harddisk space. The MCC interim release
- is 5x1.2M disks of which one boot-disk. So I guess the base installation takes
- about 15M. This gives you a very complete system with C, C++, make, vi (no
- emacs), sh, getty, shoelace (to boot it from HD), etc.
-
- >------------------------------+ "Que viva el OS/2!"
- If you already have OS/2, then you have more than enough recourses for Linux!
-
- Greetings,
- Peter Busser
-