[geeks] Dell T105 server arrives

[Mark]

On 2 Apr 2008, at 21:51, Sridhar Ayengar wrote:
> Joshua Boyd wrote:
>>> I'm not sure how this would work out for larger UNIX systems like   
>>> Ubuntu Linux.  The full image would be gigantic, so I'm pretty  
>>> sure  that the image and delete approach would be pretty bad in  
>>> that case.
>> Ubuntu isn't that big.  I have a lot a sub 1 gig installs of it.
>> Fedora or Solaris OTOH.
>> But, like NetBSD, I suspect that an OS that requires over 100 megs  
>> would
>> benefit from an image based installer.
>
> I seriously doubt the most basic, usable, functional install of  
> NetBSD is quite that large.

it's significantly smaller IIRC. The base install of the 68k MAc  
version is about 20MB and is fully functional at a basic level.

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