OT: ubuntu install problem

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On Mon, May 19, 2008 at 11:23:23AM -0700, Bill Campbell, the prominent pundit,
witicized:
> 
> Can you spell code bloat?

All too well.  I remember the days of 1MB kernel source tarballs (possibly
smaller), and now they're 45MB+.  That's what happens when you roll
everything under the sun into one distribution, including multi-vendor CPU
support.

> The default desktop for SuSE at that time was KDE (it may still
> be, but it's been a while since I used any Linux desktop other
> than gnome when initially installing CentOS systems).

One should be able to install with -no- GUI desktop.  Don't tell me SuSE
isn't that bright, given the robustness of curses-based YaST...?

> I think that's called the Blue Quartz project or something
> similar.  The Cobalt boxes don't run with a GUI user interface
> with the huge RAM requirements of a desktop manager.

TinyX and twm are pretty light on their feet.  The only problem with that
is that some applications -require- GTK+, for instance.  But they're not
apps that I'd probably run on that small a system.

> Could it be attempting to squash an existing Windows partition?
> That could easily take a lot of resources.

Still doesn't make sense to me.  It's not dealing with the fs, it's dealing
with the (very small) partition table, no matter what's on existing
partitions.  You can leave that data just sitting there and fdisk it and
*poof*.  Or you -should- be able to.

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