Just a word of warning regarding the new default partition sizes suggested by YaST. I have a 10GB root partition on my laptop and just went to install IBM Rational Software Architect. The install files take up around 2.5GB of space and the installed program itself takes another 2GB (I eliminated some of the options I didn't need)
I could have extracted the install images into another partition, but I took the default of /root/IBM/install_images... which meant there wasn't enough space left to actually install the software... If you are planning on installing any major programs like the Rational suite on your system be very careful about your partitioning scheme when installing. I think the combined Rational sweet, for example runs to in excess of 5GB and wants to install itself to /opt. On my laptop, with Gnome, KDE, the developer packages, Kernel source, OO.o etc. takes up around 6GB with logs and temp files as well. I wasn't expecting to need to install Rational on the laptop, so it caught me out. Dave -- "I got to go figure," the tenant said. "We all got to figure. There's some way to stop this. It's not like lightning or earthquakes. We've got a bad thing made by men, and by God that's something we can change." - The Grapes of Wrath, by John Steinbeck --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
