I wanted to test my first and relatively small SSD hard drive (32 GB) and started wondering how much disk space do I need for Windows XP SP3 and Fedora 13 installation. I started searching for information and created my own page listing loosely system requirements, because it seems to be difficult to find minimum and especially typical installation disk space consumption.

Has anyone made a single page listing minimum, typical and recommended system requirements, so you can easily use that single page for comparing operating system requirements especially how much hard disk space is needed?

So of course, I look up OS memory requirements.

This is what Google found for me.

http://s3.amazonaws.com/files.poster...qDRgJ74zkKM%3D

I'm leaving the internet now that I know Linux is represented by a Duckbilled Platypus with a beard and some sort of Gold Pirate rope hat... ?

Dunno what typical is but MS is pretty clear on it's web pages as to minumum and that would allow a bit of room for a few programs later but there isn't much.

Linux can be compressed like windows can to save space. I do it and never worry about it. In fact almost all linux live cd's are presented in a compressed format. One could also compress that to a hard drive. I run live usb's all the time on 4G with plenty of room for both typical and extra programs and data.

I've got Fedora 14 with a few extras in 4GB and Debian 6 in 3GB.

Debian install including KDE, OOffice and plenty of tools is something like 3-4 GB. I remember from a laptop I converted Vista needed 17 GB, without any programs installed. Oh well, the mandatory virus scanner of course and a 60-day evaluation of MsOffice. When I did the same on my wife's netbook I left 50 GB for the Windows 7 installation.

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In case it helps, my base Fedora and XP virtual dynamic harddrives in VirtualBox both take up about 5GB. Mint takes up slightly less than 4GB. I don't know how well that would correspond to real hard drive usage.

Most of these are simply so I can distro hop virtually.