I just installed Slack 10 on an old notebook from work.

Toshiba Satellite 316CDT

2 GB HD 32 MB RAM

I did a basic install (install everything) removing GNOME and KDE... Because neither would run anyways...

After installation.. I have 60 MB free! LOL

I want to know what I can remove and how to remove Slack packages...

This is only a toy so I really don't need much... I know it defaulted to install Apache and Bind and all that stuff I don't need...

Thanks for the help..

To remove software you can use pkgtool. It provides a curses based interface to manage packages. What you can delete ? That depends on what you want with the machine. If you don't want to compile you can delete a lot of development stuff and libs, if you don't want to run X you can delete X.org packages etc ...

or you can use removepkg as long as you know the keyword for it. example: removepkg fvwm, maybe you should look at pkgtool and if you are unsure, head on over to www.slackware.com/pb for a further description of it. If you STILL are unsure, just compile a list of software that you arent sure of removing and post it up here, im sure someone can help you out.

Well I DO want X... But i only want it as a play machine.. but don't I need to compile to install/update software??

I have been under the impression that everything is compiled from source under slack.. not true?

If I can update the system without the recompilation tools I would be more than happy to remove them... as I think that is about 600 MB of software...

The only things I really care about having on there is:

Xorg
FluxBox
XFCE
Mozilla (Netscape is also on there and I don't want it)
Basic word processor (AbiWord is on there and that's fine)
XMMS
VNC Viewer
etc...

I don't need any server tools or anything like that... It's just a small project toy...

Thanks for the fast response!!

P.S. - This is my first time ever using Slack... but it seems pretty cool.. and If I can figure it out well enough, maybe I'll stick it on my good notebook.. (HP Pavillion ze5270)

Try reading AmigoLinux.org documentation that's basically a stripped version of Slackware and they have written about the necessary packages to run Slackware (30 mb of pkgs...) and then you can add what you need to that base.

thanks i'll check that out...