Feverishly pounding upon a keyboard Bit Twister typed:
> On Sun, 22 Jun 2008 11:34:48 -0400, al wrote:
>
>> Yeah, it's plenty. When I get to the expert partitioner page and unmark
>> sda3 to be formatted, I see no way to tell it to install on sda1 and
>> leave sda3 alone.
>
> The human mind reduces the problem to the most complex form.
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(LOL) Excellent quip!!

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my Father which is in heaven. -- Matthew 10:33

sk8r-365 <sk8r-365@sk8r.debian.etch.invalid.org> wrote:
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> Linux Minimum System Requirements

Just for the record. I suppose that B<minimum> requirements are set by
toolchain capabilities. Hardware will work till building kernel and
libc will succeed. Any other requirements are no more than vendor
specific. (E.g. Debian (in Etch era) doesn't build for i386 (as
platform, not architecture); however any dare enough can grab all the
sources and build the whole (?) Debian herself/himself; I believe,
that's the same for any other distribution (surely, if source is
provided).)

> * Personal computer with an Intel Pentium III 500 MHz or higher
> processor
> * 256 MB physical RAM
> * 800 MB available disk space
> * 800x600 display resolution

Just for the record. I've built firewall on P-200 with 64M, 8G HDD (the
least one I've managed to get (BTW it's hardly broken and is going to
swapped with 4G)), and no monitor attached (on-board video). It runs
Debian Etch.

OK, one would say "Who cares about routers?". Fair enough. The
previous week I've installed the same Debian Etch on P-200 with 192M and
40G. It does X Window (no fancy environments though). Today I've
converted yearly report from you-know-what to F<.odt> with
openoffice.org 2. The poor thing wasn't swift; the you-know-what
wasn't swift too. That lack of swiftness is just different. Now I at
least see that poor thing does something but waiting for freeze.

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> That eliminates one concern, at least. I made that inquiry because
> during my very early trials with Linux, RH5, I failed to provide enough
> space for /. The install failed until I pulled my head from my
> posterior :0

Your record? I've failed (almost the same RH5, that called itself
RH-MSIE (I suppose Moscow State Institue of something)) with 40M (that's
HDD, RAM was 32M), and than tinkered for a week with 90M (5M free
space).

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