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Can somebody please tell me how much space in average does one distro take up? Without the /home being on the same partition. And i mean WITH X-Windows & KDE or GNOME. Hope somebody helps me.
"Can somebody please tell me how much space in average does one distro take up? Without the /home being on the same partition. And i mean WITH X-Windows & KDE or GNOME. Hope somebody helps me."
None of my installs have ever exceeded 3 gigabytes.
as has been stated.. it depends on the distro.. and what packges you select.. because a lot of them offer a dozen or more window managers by default.. if you are saying KDE *OR* GNOME, then you shouldn't have a problem.. I have installed slackwar 10 on a 2.1 GB hd using fluxbox AND windowmaker, firefox, gaim, xchat, abiword, and sylpheed.. the basics needed for web browsing, chatting, email, etc..
I gave it to my 6-year-old.. she likes windowmaker.. i leave big launch icons for firefox and a couple of games on there... she likes ltris and supertux(runs very slow on there) and a couple others..
if you're trying to squeeze it in there.. and don't plan doing a lot of storage.. ~5GB is good for most any distro.. just watch what packages you are installing..
Yeah, i guess I'll make 7GB for each distro, and just choose the regular stuff that i'm using always. My first install, i was absolutely sure that i'll check out every single thing installed. Guess that's impossible! (well, almost) I mean, 60% of installed packages don't mean anything to me, except space occupation.
The other thing is that I think all the sources should be deleted after installation. Oh, and one question, i know that it's no problem to mount /home on another partition. BUT, /home does not include /root directory, which has to be mounted separately. This kinda creates a difficult situation, unless i just don't use the root user. (i just don't want to occupy space with my files stored in /root) Or are all my worries about space nonsense? Dunno, my partition now has 18 gigs full, and i'm figuring it's the sources of the installation packages.
It depends. I have linux desktop installed on a smalle 2 gig drive on one box. Typical is more like 5 gig. My setup here has a full 10gig / and a 12gig /home plus various /media and /archive partitions
I have a large file .X.err in my /root folder. This has to do with errors of the X server, right? But why so many? And will it get bigger with time? That's kinda scary...
Anyways, thanx to newegg, i got a new hard drive even a day earlier than it was supposed to arrive. Well, what can i say, i'll start my process today!
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