Re: How big is the Debian distribution?

[Rick Macdonald <rickm@vsl.com>]

gli wrote:
> 
> Can someone tell me how big is the directory tree in debian/stable/binary?
> I want to ftp the whole binary tree and install the packages.  I have
> a partition about 260M for the download, is that big enough?  And I have
> a second partition about 500M for the /usr file system.

Here's the output from "du -k" on my copy of the trees:

99280	./debian-0.93
155056	./development
896	./contrib
12704	./non-free
1456	./tools
269392	.

So, the stable tree is only 99MB.

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...RickM...