I just finished trying to install Lubuntu Natty Alpha3 on a very small partition. The results are as follows:
- with 1800 MB, the installer fails with "not enough disk space" - with 1900 MB, the installer reports success, but after rebooting it is impossible to log in to the X environment: the screen blinks, and I'm presented with the login screen once again. In a text-only terminal (Ctrl+Alt+F1 works normally) I'm able to login, but further work is impossible. "df -h" reports no free space at all. - with 2000 MB, the installation and log in both succeed, but "df -h" reports just 70M of free space, which is IMHO well below minimum required to do anything substantial. Thus, I think 3 GB disk is probably the _practical_ minimum for a Lubuntu Natty system. Too bad it almost doubled since 10.04 :( Regards, Mikhail Maksimov PS The installer's disk editor uses "decimal bytes" so an "MB" in my report should be read as 1000000 bytes. If the disk is 2*(1024^3) bytes, you'll get some 70*(1000*1000) bytes more to work in Natty, provided the system has enough RAM to not use swap partition :( On Sun, Mar 13, 2011 at 9:08 PM, Yorvyk <yorvik.ubu...@googlemail.com>wrote: > On Sun, 13 Mar 2011 14:44:45 +0100 > 神癒礁湖 "(Rafael Laguna)" <rafaellag...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > As said on the blog: > > > > > > I can't upgrade my netbook Positivo MOBO (hard drive 2gb only) > > with lubuntu 10.04 because new versions need more a lot of space > > (1,5gb > 3,2gb). Why? > > > > > > Does Natty need more space than Maverick? > > > It doesn't take much more space than previous versions. The 3.2GB is just > some arbitrary amount of space to give you a bit of room for swap etc. I've > installed in to a 3GB partion OK. > > -- > Steve Cook (Yorvyk) > > http://lubuntu.net > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~lubuntu-desktop > Post to : lubuntu-desktop@lists.launchpad.net > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~lubuntu-desktop > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp >
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