Quote Originally Posted by massai
Shoot, after using the "kicklist from Thomas Thonikuzhiyil and the "kano" scripts I was able to trim away 1GB. Now my instalation is down to 2.5GB ..... still too BIG.

I would like to get it down to less than 1 GB actually 800Mb should be sweet.

Is this realistic ? Is it possible to be 800Mb and still functional ?


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Shoot, one more thing. Now every time I try to say "apt-get dist-upgrade" it wants to put back on the 1GB that I just took off...

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oops, I shouldn't have removed the xawtv, because I do have a TVcard.
It's definitely possible to get it around that size:
Code:
>$ df -h
Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/hdb2             4.7G  2.7G  2.0G  58% /
/dev/hda3             9.4G  2.6G  6.8G  28% /home
/dev/hda5              47G   23G   24G  49% /music
[01:55 PM Fri Jan 23: stephen @ ~]
>$ du -h /var/cache/apt/archives/
512     /var/cache/apt/archives/partial
1.2G    /var/cache/apt/archives
[01:55 PM Fri Jan 23: stephen @ ~]
>$ du -h /usr/src
665M    /usr/src

As you can see if I wanted to get rid the .debs in my cache and eliminate the 2 source trees for the 2.4.24 & 2.6.1 for the kernels I have installed I would only be using about 1gb and I have most of KDE, mplayer and all kinds of other software installed. What is it trying to install when you do the dist-upgrade there's no way you should be getting a gb reinstalled you should try just upgrade to upgrade the programs that you have installed and not let it install the new packages that dist-upgrade does by design.