Re: release status

[John Summerfield <debian@ComputerDatasafe.com.au>]

Joey Hess wrote:

> John Summerfield wrote:
>  
>
> > I set out to find whether the new manual provides that kind of 
> > information, or pointer to where it may be found.  In the course of my 
> > search I have discovered:
> > a)  http://d-i.alioth.debian.org/manual/en.arm/apas03.html contains links 
> > to
> > a.1 The Multi Disk HOWTO 
> > <http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Multi-Disk-HOWTO.html> which is quite old and 
> > seriously out of date. I doubt whether any but the most frugal would be 
> > satisfied, for example, with the partitions sizes recommended on 
> > http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Multi-Disk-HOWTO-10.html#ss10.1. If nobody 
> > wants to take on the task of revising it, I suggest the link be dropped.
> >    
>
> It's only two years out of date and looks generally correct to me as far
> as workable minimum sizes go. I see no real reason to drop the link.
>
>  
I have a minimimal Sarge install. it's 200 Mbytes.


That rules out Learning.

I don't know what hoppies one can practice with 300 Mbytes of free disk 
and no optional packages, but it seems to me you'd be constrained.

If you want a GUI disktop and a reasonable set of software, 2 gbytes is 
about the going rate: it's what I used on RHL 7.3, it's about what the 
progeny install I just did takes. SuSE 9.0 came out a bit lite at 1.4. I 
don't have a recent equivalent Sarge to look at.

I know my 30 Gbyte drive is bulging at the perimeter. If I thought to 
master DVDs it would be nowhere near enough.




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John

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