How old of a system can I load Breezy?

[Sarangan Thuraisingham]

hometoast wrote:
> Soon as I find a dongle for my xircom network card, I am attempting to 
> install debian on a 486-DX100  laptop with 810 MB HDD and 28 MB ram.  If 
> that doesn't work I might try gentoo because I know i can compile it all 
> from stage 1.  I honestly wouldnt install breezy because I don't know 
> how to _not_ include all the Gnome stuff (which would never fit on the 
> HDD nor run with 28MB) during the install.  

When you boot up the Breezy install CD, it says "press enter to install 
with standard options". But if you install with "server" options it will 
install the bare minimum(i.e. just the kernel, utilities and a command 
prompt)

> If you wanted to only run ftp/apache servers I would start with regular 
> debian because I know they've compiled down to 386's.
Ubuntu to have these options to. After you do the minimum install, you 
can use the apt-get in command line to install Apache, modphp, MySQL, 
squid, etc. Basically, you can any program that is available in the 
repository.

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Regards,
   Saru
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Sarangan Thuraisingham
ECS, University of Southampton, UK

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