Date: Sun, 9 Oct 94 18:31:17 JST From: Stephen Turnbull To: C867BUC AT SEMOVM DOT BITNET, buyukisik_o_f AT ae DOT ge DOT com Cc: djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu Subject: Moving to Linux -- questions This doesn't really belong on the DJGPP list; try comp.os.linux.help, or perhaps comp.os.linux.admin. Get the Linux HOW-TOs from //sunsite.unc.edu/pub/linux/docs/howto or something like that. Get the readmes for Slackware or other distributions available in .../packages/slackware or something like that. Having said that, there are a couple of points I can contribute. BTW, the gist of a recent discussion on c.o.l.admin is that UMSDOS is *not* appreciably slower than the minix, iafs, or (nowadays preferred) ext2 file systems. However, I shudder at the idea that MSDOS can get at my Linux filesystem; I really am much happier having it safe on another partition. Also, if you are running MSDOS, you have *no* security against intruders on your Linux file system. Here are the most important directories (in a quick edit of a du) on my Linux system. Note that /usr/lib includes pile of TeX stuff. 2405 /var 11916 /usr/bin 26955 /usr/lib 5271 /usr/src/linux-1.0.9 944 /usr/include 542 /etc 801 /sbin 215 /boot 15 /dev 846 /lib =================================== 49910 total (in KBytes) This includes a pretty full development system, as well as groff and ghostscript and such. On top of this, if you don't use X you really ought to have 16MB - total RAM available for swap; with X, I'm uncomfortable with less than 32MB - total RAM. You also should leave another 10MB for temporaries. Two directories you might be able to do away with: 15312 /usr/X11 10240 /usr/lib/emacs Conservatively, I'd say that reserving 80--100 MB for Linux binaries and system functions should be plenty, assuming that you are really willing to leave the man pages and other docs on the CD-ROM. With a lot of care you should be able to shoehorn it into 50MB. --Steve