On Sun, Jul 15, 2001 at 05:41:13PM -0400, Ruleng@aol.com wrote:
If there is not enough disk space for a recommended distribution, would it be possible for me to use only part of it at first, and which parts should a novice select? I would appreciate any advice that you could give me. Regards, Norman
Different people in the user group have their own preferences of distribution so I hope that for each major distribution you will hear from someone in the group that uses it.
My favourite distribution is debian so I will answer you based on the capabilties of the debian installer and packaging system.
When debian first installs it installs what is called a base system - this is a small set of files which are just enough for the system to boot, to support the package installation system and a few other simple tasks. Even so there are many useful unix tools included.