On Monday 29 November 2004 23:26, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > i'm still curious about what it means to say that FC3 installation > requires "additional disk space" as described below. Seems clear to me:-) The installer has to be some place; if not on CD then on your target disk. Also it needs space to place rpms before unpacking. > > ===== > The disk space requirements listed below represent the disk space > taken up by Fedora Core 3 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. > > 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. > ===== > > additional disk space where? and i'm asking about both > /Fedora/base/stage2.img, and /var/lib/rpm. thanks. > > rday -- Cheers John
