On Tue, 30 Nov 2004, John Summerfield wrote: > 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:-) then feel free to explain it. :-) > The installer has to be some place; if not on CD then on your target disk. or in RAM, as some of the docs suggest, at which point there is no need for any HD space. so i still don't see what's being copied to the hard drive, or where for that matter. > Also it needs space to place rpms before unpacking. the release notes suggest that the *additional* space needed for an install is anywhere from 90M to 175M for an "everything" install. there is no way all of the RPMs for an everything install are going to fit in 175M. so, once again, what is that additional hard drive space being used for. precisely. rday
