On Thu, 03 Feb 2005 19:08, Robert Himmelmann wrote: > About how much space do I need for a 'normal' Gentoo-installation with > Java, KDE, and so on? Here is what I have on my lappie:- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ df Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/hda6 10944128 7096824 3847304 65% / none 127688 612 127076 1% /dev none 127688 0 127688 0% /dev/shm
Add to that a swap partition of 512 Megs, and a 2 cylinder boot partition. Note that there is a 700Meg data file in the / partition, but no news or mail spools. I have basic KDE and Gnome installs, and a number of the normal o/s utilities and applications which we all know and love. The main gobbler of disk space is the /var/tmp area which is used as a work area during the builds. I you want to compile OpenOffice from scratch you will need of the order of 2 - 3 Gbytes. > And would it be possible to use the same > home-directorys as with SuSE 9.2? > (/home is on a different partition than /) A guarded 'yes, probably'. I have had problems doing that in the distant past. While not causing a total disaster, going from Debian to SuSe some years ago caused some excitement with '.' files from the different distributions clashing. Other opinions? > It would also bee good to use the linux bootloader as it is (on > my system) reliable and has a really nice graphical interface. That's quite in order. > >On Mon, 31 Jan 2005 19:11, Robert Himmelmann wrote: > >>Nick Rout wrote: > >>>Anyway, just an indication of interest is all i'm after at this stage. > >> > >>I might come just for watching and helping. I have always been using > >>SuSE and so I don't have any experience with a 'real' installation. I > >>would like to try Gentoo, but my 40Gb-laptop-hd is already filled with > >>SuSE and windows and the partition table is so badly designed that I > >>can't put on another partition. > > > >I'm sure that can be sorted out. That's what 'Fests are for. -- Sincerely etc., Christopher Sawtell
