[TriLUG] How may GB does a complete Fedora core Install take?

Ralph Blach rcblach at blach.dnsalias.org
Thu Oct 28 21:06:22 EDT 2004


Rob,

Thanks for the pointer.

Chip


Rob Lockhart wrote:

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>On 10/28/2004 12:18 PM, Ralph Blach wrote:
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>>I want to install a Fedora 2 core and was wondering how many GB's
>>of hardfile space a complete install really takes?
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>Talking about Fedora Core 2, it is impossible to believe that there is
>no boot floppy available.  I was going to try and install it at work
>on an old Dell (i586 200MMX, 128MB RAM), to serve as a lab
>DHCP/BOOTP/HTTP server.  It says with the newer BIOS that if you
>specify "Floppy", it actually first tries the floppy drive, then PnP
>CD-ROM, then hard drive (whatever PnP CDROM is).  It doesn't seem to
>work, as it doesn't boot from CD-ROM with a Centos-3 boot CD I made
>(Centos requires i686 and 256MB RAM).  I haven't tried to see if it
>would boot a Knoppix CD.  I was actually trying an FTP install.
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>I can't understand why the kernel couldn't have been modularized more,
>and move the modules to floppy.
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>I Googled lots of proposed work-arounds, but none were fruitful or
>worth my time.  One said to install FC1 then upgrade to FC2. another
>had a bunch of loadlin stuff (presuming you had an extra FAT32
>bootable partition on the hard drive, then it would be blown away
>after install?).
>
>Back to your question, the answer is:
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>http://fedora.redhat.com/docs/release-notes/
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>      Hard Disk Space Requirements
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>This section lists the disk space required to install Fedora Core 2.
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>      Note
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>The disk space requirements listed below represent the disk space
>taken up by Fedora Core 2 /after/ the installation is complete.
>However, additional disk space is required during the installation to
>support the installation environment. This additional disk space
>corresponds to the size of /Fedora/base/stage2.img (on CD-ROM 1) plus
>the size of the files in /var/lib/rpm on the installed system.
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>In practical terms, this means that as little as an additional 90MB
>can be required for a minimal installation, while as much as an
>additional 175MB can be required for an "everything" installation.
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>Also, keep in mind that additional space will be required for any user
>data, and at least 5% free space should be maintained for proper
>system operation.
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>      Custom Installation (Minimal): 620MB
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>      Server: 1.1GB
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>    *
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>      Personal Desktop: 2.3GB
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>    *
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>      Workstation: 3.0GB
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>    *
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>      Custom Installation (Everything): 6.9GB
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>Note, you may wish to up that amont by about 300MB, if you consider
>all the updates (kept in /var/yum for me cuz I do yum)
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Ralph "Chip" Blach
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