Hi. As for Red Hat requiring 5 gb of space in most cases that isn't true. It only needs that much space if you intend on installing every single package that the distro has to offer. When installing Fedora or Red Hat you should do a custem install, recommended, and only install package groups that are accessible for you or of any interest for you. For example the KDE desktop and all it's apps are not accessible and so I choose to unselect those package groups. If I am installing to a laptop were I don't plan to run server side stuff I can exclude things like apache web server, samba, or things like that. If you don't plan to work with gnome 2.4 which comes with fedora 1.0 and Slackware 9.1 then you can probably save large amounts of space by deselecting all x windows packages. Anyway, generally I have gotten Linux Red Hat installed with a nice package selection in 2 or 3 gb of space. As far as the text console command goes it works on Red Hat, and I've seen it work on Slackware along time ago when I tried out Slackware.
