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Alex Zbyslaw writes:

>  I believe minimum ram is 24Mb but if you can get more... .  I'm
>  sure I used to run 4.X off < 4Gb of disk

	Sometime around then it was possible* to do a completely
bare-bones installation in around 850 mb.  This meant one partition,
no swap, no X, no sources, no whole-pretty-much-anything not needed
to get a) a login prompt and b) connected.


				Robert Huff


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