Re: newbie, what flavour for my old hardware?
Colin Watson wrote:
> installation manual for woody (Debian 3.0) says:
>
> You must have at least 12MB of memory and 110MB of hard disk space.
> For a minimal console-based system (all standard packages), 250MB is
> required. If you want to install a reasonable amount of software,
> including the X Window System, and some development programs and
> libraries, you'll need at least 400MB. For a more or less complete
> installation, you'll need around 800MB. To install everything
> available in Debian, you'll probably need around 2 GB. Actually,
> installing everything doesn't even make sense, since some packages
> conflict with others.
>
> (The numbers may be a bit out of date, but the minimum values shouldn't
> have changed all that much.)
I think those are the numbers that came with potato. The 2GB is because
potato came on 3CDs, and as woody takes 7, adjust accordingly. Though you
still won't need to install anywhere near the whole lot, and the minimum
values for running X or console are still approximately the same.
I wouldn't go as far as to say that 800MB is a `more or less complete
installation', though. I have 1.7GB, and if I were to install either KDE or
GNOME, as well as an unpacked kernel tree, then there wouldn't be much space
left for /home .
Glyn
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