installation requirements?

alaios · 04-08-2004, 11:39 AM

Hi! I have just downloaded the latest version of Debian. I want to know what are the minimum, recommended and maximum disk space for the installation.
Thx

nex6 · 04-08-2004, 02:42 PM

depends on how much stuff you are going to install, a bare minum install with no gui is under 300MB.

Full install w/Gui etc...

could be a gig or more depending

what size hard drive do you have?

and what do you want to do with it? server or desktop?

vectordrake · 04-08-2004, 04:33 PM

If you wanna do very litle beyond surf the net and read email, you'll likely get by with a 500meg drive, but I'd recommend against it. 1 gig is livable, but you'll not be satisfied for ever. If you have a 3gig drive, you'd okay as long as you aren't an mp3 collector, etc.

souljah · 04-08-2004, 10:39 PM

the biggest space consumer is your Desktop manager. If you can live with a manager such as blackbox or fluxbox you can get by with a much smaller drive. Yet if you need something more comprehensive, ie gnome or kde you will need a much larger harddrive. I would go with a minimum of 2 gig for a larger install (although as always bigger is better).

Less inportantly you need more than 12megs of ram to do a normal install. This is probably not a problem since its been a while since I've seen an 8meg chip of ram.

Enjoy

alaios · 04-16-2004, 04:04 PM

so 3gb are enough and for kde and gnome right?

vectordrake · 04-16-2004, 06:23 PM

If you want both and a good cross-section of the apps that come with both, you may fill around 2 gigs. If you use one or the other, you'll likely get away with about 1.2-1.5 gigs, leaving room for installation of more stuff later.

I had Debian running on my old pentium 166 and I had KDE installed. There was a 1.6 gig drive in it and I added an 800 meg drive I had laying around. I used the 800 megger for a /home drive. I got along fine (but it was a bit slow.

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