From: Bernd Meyer (root@umibox.hanse.de)
Date: 05/30/93


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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