Subject: Re: Yeller Dog finally installing!
From: Gordon Neault (gordo-x@shaw.ca)
Date: Thu Jan 03 2002 - 09:37:57 MST
Debian's docs state that selecting "everything" may need 2 GB (!) at
/var.
On Thursday, January 3, 2002, at 09:35 AM, Gordon Neault wrote:
> According to Debian docs, installation creates large files at /var (log
> partition).
>
> On Wednesday, January 2, 2002, at 11:06 PM, Doug Philips wrote:
>>> The moral is that if you want Yeller Dog, make sure that you have
>>> plenty
>>> of RAM and disk space. A puny 1 gig of disk space just ain't gonna
>>> do
>>> it even for a Base Install.
>>
>> I was able to do a Base Install on a 7600/132 with 48Meg Ram and 1.2
>> Gig disk (of which 250 is MacOS8.6, 128Mb is swap, and the rest is one
>> monolithic Linux partition), so even with 800Mb of disk I had no
>> trouble (and room to spare).
>
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