Phil Schaffner wrote: > Phil Schaffner wrote on 02/19/2010 05:29 PM: >> Phil Schaffner wrote on 02/19/2010 05:17 PM: >> ...Could run an i386 install too, but this is >>> probably good enough. >> Just for grins - tried the i386 install with 1GB RAM on a 3GB disk and >> got an error that it needed 1924MB and there was not enough space, so >> looks like the i386 minimum is around 3.5-4GB. > > OK - last self-reply, I promise. :-) > > Tried i386 with 5GB and it got further but errored out after the > installation started with a message about needing 97MB on / so I > conclude that i386 needs >5GB to install, and so x86_64 definitely needs > >5GB for a default install also, despite the installed system having a > bit of headroom. 6GB seems like a good minimum number, with the caveat > that it is not really enough for a workable system over time. Anaconda and/or yum calculates disk space usage with a pink unicorn based slide rule. I've seen cases where it is 30% high. In fact, on my mini domU's I moved / and /usr back to the same file system to avoid wasting so much space to get past the bumbled calculations. I suspect if you tried with 6G you would significantly less than 5.1G used post install. .dn
