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#1 (**permalink**) 01-17-2008, 08:06 PM

Why is the Fedora download over 2GB? I want to download a
distribution that is a few hundred MB at most. Any suggestions?

#2 (**permalink**) 01-17-2008, 08:06 PM

Kevin Arouza wrote:

> Why is the Fedora download over 2GB? I want to download a
> distribution that is a few hundred MB at most. Any suggestions?

Try knoppix - its a bootable Live CD - you don't have to install
on your PC it configures and boots itself without any intervention.
If you like it, you can then install on PC.
http://www.knoppix.com

You can also search for lots of other LiveCD variants that
are from 50Mb to DVD size on google.

J

#3 (**permalink**) 01-17-2008, 08:06 PM

Kevin Arouza wrote:
> Why is the Fedora download over 2GB? I want to download a
> distribution that is a few hundred MB at most. Any suggestions?

The BitTorrent download is 2GB because it's 4 CDs.
You don't have to install everything on all the CDs.
Alternatively you could go to a mirror to get just the first CD, which
is enough to install what Fedora considers a barebones box.

http://www.distrowatch.com or http://lwn.net/Distributions/ if you're
looking for something else.

There are distributions dedicated to being small.

#4 (**permalink**) 01-17-2008, 08:06 PM

On 2004-07-18, Kevin Arouza <kevarouza@hotmail.com> wrote:

> Why is the Fedora download over 2GB? I want to download a
> distribution that is a few hundred MB at most. Any suggestions?

NetBSD:

http://www.netbsd.org/mirrors/#ftp

--

-John (john@os2.dhs.org)

#5 (**permalink**) 01-17-2008, 08:06 PM

On Sun, 18 Jul 2004 20:13:12 -0500, John Thompson <john@starfleet.os2.dhs.org> wrote:
> On 2004-07-18, Kevin Arouza <kevarouza@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Why is the Fedora download over 2GB? I want to download a
>> distribution that is a few hundred MB at most. Any suggestions?
>
> NetBSD:
>
> http://www.netbsd.org/mirrors/#ftp

I second this. Depending on what you want do, you can get a very usable
NetBSD installation in under 150MB. I had a box with a 120MB install of
NetBSD that functioned very reliably as a DNS, DHCP, and NT PDC server.

--
-- Skylar Thompson (skylar@os2.dhs.org)
-- http://www.os2.dhs.org/~skylar/

#6 (**permalink**) 01-17-2008, 08:07 PM

Terrific. Thanks all for the info

#7 (**permalink**) 01-17-2008, 08:07 PM

Yes, netBSD is better should you are running low in bandwidth. You
might go to linuxiso.org and distrowatch.com for that comparison.

Ah, well, you might try slackware(no x-window) and gentoo, the fit 1
cd.

--
raqueeb hassan
congo (drc)

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