Partitions

[registered99]

Hi, after reading the Documentation, I was a little bit unclear what the basic requirements for partitions are. I have a 12 gig drive with 7 gigs left. Is it possible to install on that? If so, please provide the minumum for each partition and how it should work.
Thanks,
registered99@gmail.com

[Jasper]

That very much depends on what you want to use it for. 7G should certainly be enough to install Lunar.

As for partitions, again that depends on what you use it for. I have a desktop system with only root, swap and home partitions.

I don't really know about minimum requirements.

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Jasper

[registered99]

Well, I just want to kind of see what I can use it for. It's a K6 with 484mb of SDRAM. I really just want it to be a lightweight desktop. Running ZNES, and playing music is all that's needed, really.

[sofar]

first of all the REAL minimum is about 900MB (yes, that's under one gigabyte). The problem is that that is not enough to RUN lunar as compiling a kernel already takes 350MB of disc space.

So, a realistic minimum is about 3.0 gigabyte. If you have less then you really need to be a tight nanny and clean out the bedpans on every shift, so to speak ;^).

A bit more relaxing is about 6gb. That will be enough for most people and it's plenty for installing one of the major desktops (GNOME, KDE, or Xfce) on. With 10gb or more, you have plenty of space.

[lunar_mike]

df -Th
Filesystem Type Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
rootfs rootfs 5.6G 1.5G 4.1G 27% /
/dev/root reiserfs 5.6G 1.5G 4.1G 27% /
/dev/hda1 ext2 60M 2.8M 54M 5% /boot
/dev/hda7 reiserfs 24G 33M 24G 1% /home
/dev/hda6 reiserfs 5.6G 105M 5.5G 2% /var
/dev/hda3 ext3 1.9G 33M 1.8G 2% /var/tmp
tmpfs tmpfs 4.0M 4.0K 4.0M 1% /var/lock
tmpfs tmpfs 4.0M 24K 4.0M 1% /var/run
tmpfs tmpfs 256M 1.6M 255M 1% /tmp

Here is how mine is set up =D hope it helps

[withoutclass]

[sofar]

when I setup normal machines I usually do either one of these:

[withoutclass]