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Old 06-25-2004, 04:07 PM   #1
arobic
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Partitioning a small HD

Hi all!

I just want your advice here.
I have a laptop booting now in Win2000 and I want to make it dual boot with Debian. Unfortunately, I only have a 12GB HD. Do you think it's too small? Shoudl I go for a very small distro, like LFS?

Any opinion or experience to share are welcome!

Thanks!
 
Old 06-25-2004, 04:09 PM   #2
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6 gig is big enough for any OS.
 
Old 06-25-2004, 04:12 PM   #3
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I have run windows 2000 on a 2 gig HD before and actually managed to install a few programs along with it. And even the bigger distros like Mandrake and Fedora with all the included packages installed are no bigger than 5 & 1/2 gigs.
 
  


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