my name is ben Posted December 21, 2003 Share Posted December 21, 2003 what size partition will be sufficient for a installing a linux distro? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
markwolfe Veteran Posted December 21, 2003 Veteran Share Posted December 21, 2003 It depends on what you want in it. Your signature says you have a 2GB drive. That is good for most things. KDE and Gnome interfaces take up a bit of real estate on your drive and in memory/resources. There are less newbie-friendly options that use a LOT less resources, if you need to reduce. How much were you thinking of using for Linux? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
my name is ben Posted December 21, 2003 Author Share Posted December 21, 2003 i have a 120 gigs, sorry for the confusion Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kjordan2001 Posted December 21, 2003 Share Posted December 21, 2003 You could do fine on 2-5 gigs if you needed to, the more the better though if you plan to use it heavily. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
markwolfe Veteran Posted December 21, 2003 Veteran Share Posted December 21, 2003 i have a 120 gigs, sorry for the confusion If you have 120GB free, you have a nice, bright GREEN LIGHT! :) Like the other poster said, 2-5 should be good. If you don't have a lot of Linux experience, you might want to go 5+, and install everything to sample the different apps. There is a LOT of stuff, so if too many options overwhelm you, you might want to select a more basic config. Have you picked a distro? What do you want to use Linux for? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xRKx Posted December 21, 2003 Share Posted December 21, 2003 Hey, even if it /was/ just 2GB, that'd be fine, too. My linux / partition is only 4-5GB in size, and it's still almost completely empty. Granted, all of my data stays on my NTFS volume - with a FAT32 volume and my CF card for data I might want to later move to the XP drive. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neowin_hipster Posted December 21, 2003 Share Posted December 21, 2003 I'm running suse 9.0 on a 4.9GB drive, i'm only using about 1.4 GB and i've got pretty much 1 of everything. There's always a ton of redundant packages though. I've run mandrake 7 on about 500MB with kde. Normally i like to give a source distro like gentoo another GB of pure space because unzipped sources take up a ton of room. The kernel, for example, takes up roughly 220MB itself. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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