Re: Needed space for chroot installing sarge

[Goswin von Brederlow <brederlo@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de>]

lsorense@csclub.uwaterloo.ca (Lennart Sorensen) writes:

> On Thu, Aug 11, 2005 at 10:17:14PM +0200, Holger Wansing wrote:
>> Hello,
>> 
>> is this still true? (from
>> http://www.nl.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/apcs04.html.en)
>> 
>> --snip
>> You
>> need at least 150MB of space available for a console only install,
>> or at least 300MB if you plan to install X.
>> --snap
>> 
>> Shouldn't that be somewhat more?
>
> Sounds about right to me.
>
> Len Sorensen

mrvn@frosties:~% du -h --max-depth 0 /mnt/chroot/sid
201M    /mnt/chroot/sid

That is a clean sid chroot with build-essential installed. A lot of
space is wasted on the Packages/Sources files: 37M (I have 2 mirrors
so double the needed space).

Given that you normaly need some place to download debs to
(/var/cache/apt) 150MB might be too little nowadays while
installing. Or just barely enough. Hey, it says at least.

MfG
        Goswin