Topic: Why 3 Gb HD req'd? Will less work?

[Wei, Chou-Ke]

OK, so we happened to have a clean/clear 3 GB hard drive for our
first evaluation inst'n of E-smith 4.0 and, of course, all went
well (mostly...

But I can envisage some applications in which very little hard-
drive space at all would be needed by the end-user...

in such cases, how -little- hard drive space does it take to
succesfully install e-smith 4.0 onto?

Also, although a Pentium 60 is formally required, would a
486-class (e.g. AMD 486 running at 120 MHz) run e-smith 4.0
(e.g. for an e-mail only application for light traffic to &
from just 2 or 3 computers?

E.g. is there any code in e-smith (RedHat Linux 6.1) that
-technically- (rather than -practically-) requires Pentium
instruction set?

TIA

[Ian]

I've successfully installed e-smith on an old Compaq Deskpro 5100 -
64MB RAM
840MB hard drive
Pentium 100

Works like a charm.
As long as you have enough space for all the data (about 500MB as far as I can tell), you should be right.

Good luck!

-Ian