From: root@umibox.hanse.de (Bernd Meyer) Subject: Re: How big a HD for Linux box? Date: Sun, 30 May 1993 20:09:23 GMT
dudek@acsu.buffalo.edu (The Cybard) writes:
>chuckm@canada.hp.com (Chuck Munro) writes:
>>Emilio Grimaldo (grimaldo@nlsce1.seri.philips.nl) wrote:
>>> Can anybody suggest me how many MB would be recommended to have a decent
>>> Linux box where one can actually do useful work?
>>Well, I think it is easy to guess that you can never have too much disk
>>space :-) Seriously, I would recommend at least a 200 MByte drive
>>for a Linux system. You could squeeze DOS in there too, if you must.
>>This class of disk drive seems to be getting very cheap these days.
Something to consider - the complete linux-tree of tsx-11, with the
exclusion of the attic and the SLS directory, fits on 3 tapes with less than
40MB each. The SLS-directory is just a 4th tape.
Bernie
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