[CLUE-Tech] re: Fedora Core 1 on a 4 gig drive

[William]

I let the installer automatically set the partitions after destroying all existing partitions on
the drive.  I verified the partitions twice, and there is certainly ample space being provided to
the three default needs:  /, /root, and swap.

--- home <jmf at jim-liesl.org> wrote:
> > From: William <bkimball1 at yahoo.com>
> > To: clue-tech at clue.denver.co.us
> > Subject: [CLUE-Tech] Fedora Core 1 on a 4Gig HDD?
> >
> > In booting from CD-ROM and using the GUI Anaconda to attempt a Minimal
> installation of Fedora onto
> > a small box with a single 4Gig HDD fails during the copy/install phase.
> The error it throws seems
> > to indicate insufficient drive space.  (Aside:  The Anaconda installer
> should check HDD
> > requirements *before* attempting to copy files.)
> >
> > I'd still like to get a fundamental Fedora on this box with it's meager
> 4Gig HDD.  Can this be
> > done?  How?
> How did you lay out the drive partitions?  Did you take the default or use
> disk druid?  were there any existing non-linux partitions?
> 
> As I remember, the minimal install is like 600 meg, and the default
> partitioning is /, /usr and a swap.
> Assuming:
> You didn't add other packages (Gnome/ KDE desktops suck up a lot)
> you didn't bypass the auto disk layout, or if you did, you didn't short
> either / or /usr
> 
> correctly laid out, you should just about be able to install nearly the
> entire fedora core on a 4 gig drive.
> 
> jim
> 
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William Kimball, Jr.
"Programming is an art form that fights back!"  =)


	
		
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