couple linux(deb) questions

[Doug Smith]

Ok, time to sound off on this freeing up of disk space issue.  Here's
a true story.  When I first got this machine, it only had a 1.28 gig
drive on it.  I had it most of the way full of these exotic programs I
liked, but I had plenty of space to continue installing almost
anything I wanted.  Granted, now, this was with RH 6.2, and it would
have never worked on that drive with what I'm using now, but I learned
about those libraries the hard way.  

One day, I found a bunch of x-windows stuff and gnome stuff on there.
Well, nuke, I thought, just let's dump all this graphical crap and
free up a bunch more space.  Well, I freed it up, then I turned this
thing off.  I think there was a storm coming, or, just because I turn
my equipment off when I am not using it. What do you think happened
when I turned it back on?

Nuke was the word.  I had totally busted my system.  It would not
boot, and I had no hardware speech, no speakup, no nothing to get me
back up.  I couldn't use the computer again for several days until a
sighted friend could come out here and totally re-install the os.  

Now, go ahead and remove all those libraries, just don't say I didn't
warn you, and that the other person didn't warn you.  When you  have
to have a sighted friend come out there and re-install, or if you have
to wait for several days to get or borrow a hardware synthesizer, see
if it was worth it to find a few meg somewhere.  



Hope this helps.  




-- 
Doug Smith: C.S.F.C.
Computer Scientist For CHRIST