Why does it need that much hard disk space?

[Gregory Nowak]

Try zipspeak to start with. It only requires about 100 megs for the base system.
Greg


On Wed, May 08, 2002 at 02:16:02PM -0400, Cris Ali wrote:
> Hi Folks,
> I was surprised to learn that installing linux requires more than three gigs
> of hard disk space, 20 times more than windows98.  If i am to install it on
> my retired 90 mhz pentium, i have to buy a new hard disk.  This machine has
> two hard disks, one is 2.2 gigs, and the second is only 320 megs.  Is it
> possible to have a small installation of linux, at least to learn how to use
> this system?  Secondly, does anyone know a good place to buy inexpensive
> hard drives that would be competibile with old computers?
> Cheers,
> Cris Ali
> 
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