Christopher Sawtell wrote:
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.
Masochist - 80MB download for 1.1.4!
However, I'd be a bit more difficult, and separate the root partition and your normal working ( /home? ) directory. This is purely because I have lost /etc/passwd by editing it with a full disk and something writing to it. I know it's a pain to set up, but I reckon it's worth it even for a workstation.
This is mine (debian but the distro doesn't really make a lot of difference ) - you can see what a glutton for punishment I am! I could have been worse and put lvm on as well, but let's not start that again (:
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/hda1 1951744 209944 1741800 11% / tmpfs 257900 0 257900 0% /dev/shm /dev/hda8 19534372 655432 18878940 4% /home /dev/hda9 33261508 19551476 13710032 59% /share /dev/hda6 3903620 600384 3303236 16% /tmp /dev/hda2 3903620 2218348 1685272 57% /usr /dev/hda5 9767184 234896 9532288 3% /usr/local /dev/hda3 3903620 1813984 2089636 47% /var /dev 1951744 209944 1741800 11% /.dev none 5120 2816 2304 55% /dev
With a 1GB swap on /dev/hda7. I also use reiserfs. /usr/local is so big because I do a lot of compilation from source, but I've just cleaned it up! - there's a bit of music on /share!
OK that's fine with an 80GB disk, but I'm doing a lot of installation testing at work, and I'm using vmware ( it works ok on WBEL - the RedHat Enterprise clone, but it's soooo sssllloooowwwwwww ), and I allocate a 4GB partition to build up a graphis-based development environment ( that's Gnome OR KDE, I'd never install both ) for most distros - debian, fedora, mandrake, SuSE. That's plenty of room. As an aside, Solaris 10 x86 install requires a minimum 11GB!
Steve
That should never happen. In all distros, the act of mounting a partition is just the linking of the . and .. files to the mount point. Maybe there was a difference of opinion in what actually constitutes an ext3 or reiser, etc firesystem betwen distros. Probably divine retribution for downgrading your system like that (runs for cover :)
And would it be possible to use the same home-directorys as with SuSE 9.2?A guarded 'yes, probably'.
(/home is on a different partition than /)
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.
I've got an external 40GB USB drive, so you can dump your whole system on it before you start if you wish. It's now too fast - probably take the best part of an hour knowing what lappie hdd's are like, or I can borrow the odd 100GB from work and you can dump it over the net to somewhere ( probably faster ).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:I'm sure that can be sorted out. That's what 'Fests are for.
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.
Steve
