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Min RH5.2 install

I have several PCs I want to install RH5.2 onto for a distributed processing project - however the pcs I have (mostly 486sx25) have hds ranging from 100 - 200Mb.  What do I need to do for such small installations?  I have done the pre-set workstation install on three systems with larger disks so far.  I only need to be able to telnet and ftp to these machine - they will not have a monitor or keyboard attached. They are connected by 3com lan cards.  
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well, on if you do not need Xwindows and desktop applications, 100-200 mb of ram are a lot of space.

leave away most of the things you won't need on EVERY machine, such as documentation/man-pages.

just install the minimal basic system and only telnet & ftp services.

you can try to do a "strip *" in every binary directory; this  will take away unnecesary debug information that gets generated, when compiling the application. i do not know exactly about rh5.2, but the older the distribution you install, the less space it will take. recently i saw, that the slackware 3.2 (the one i started with, wow!!) takes aproximatly 40-80 mb of diskspace for standard installations....

now it's up to you ;)
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do you need XWindows?

If not, only install necessary prompt based Linux soft and networking. Forget about the rest.

Good luck
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No I dont need xwindows - just telnet and ftp access
My inexperience means I dont know what is necessary and what is not - I have tried a few custom builds and none have worked for missing something :-(
Can someone tell me what itms I need to check to achieve the above?
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the suggestion from guiyu seems reasonable.