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Re: Linux boxes.



Tuvik Beker writes:
 > PuPPy wrote:
 > 
 > > How much is enough?
 > As a rule of thumb - always twice as much as you have...
 > I'm using 400MB for root fs, 80MB for swap and 1.6GB (another drive) for
 > /usr, and I'd still be glad to have more space.
 > For reasonable purposes, however, 400-500MB total should be enough for
 > quite a nice system. If you do separate /usr, the root fs can be rather
 > small - 40-70MB (especially if you move /home under /usr).

A full RedHat v3.0.3 (a.k.a. Picasso) installation fills about 550 mb,
not counting other things you might want to install.  I don't know how
big RedHat v4 (a.k.a. Rembrant) is.  If you want to do a simple
straight-forward full install, as opposed to picking exactly which
packages you want (which I wouldn't recommend for a newbie), I'd give
Linux at least a 1gb partition.  This should leave a reasonable amount
of room for fooling around, but if you start trying to do things like
recompile emacs, gcc & libc all at once, you might go a long way
towards sucking up that remaining 450mb.

-- 
Dr. Harvey J. Stein
Berger Financial Research
abel@netvision.net.il


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