If you plan to put x Windows on you can cut down a lot of the size by only using one desktop such as Gnome, and not installing the x development stuff. If you select your packages carefully I had X, and my favorite apps with in 1.2 GB. ----- Original Message ----- From: Jared <jared-stofflett@xxxxxxxxxxx> To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Sunday, March 31, 2002 5:10 AM Subject: RE: Memory Considerations > Ok I accually am going to put x-windows on my machine for some of my sighted > friends to be able to use. How will this effect the memory needed? I will > probibly be putting it on a seporate partition on meyc drive then for more > room. > > -----Original Message----- > From: speakup-admin at braille.uwo.ca > [mailto:speakup-admin at braille.uwo.ca]On Behalf Of Geoff Shang > Sent: Saturday, March 30, 2002 11:09 PM > To: speakup at braille.uwo.ca > Subject: Re: Memory Considerations > > > On Sun, 31 Mar 2002, Jared wrote: > > > All I have is a 4 gig drive that was what came with this. Could I install > > redhat on this drive and have enough room to spair. > > I'm running Debian on a 2 gig drive. I'm running out of space now, but > that's with 3 years worth clutter on there as well (and this system > supports 2 uers as well). So I'd definitely say yes, especially if you > don't want Xwindows (which you probably don't). > > > Cood I then read off my > > fat32 for stuff like music on the windows drive? > > Yep. > > > If I use x2 for a file > > system on my c drive will it be possible to dule boot? > > Urrrr. I don't understand the question. Filesystems are on partitions, not > drives. So you could have an ext2 filesystem and a fat32 filesystem on > seperate partitions on the same drive. > > Geoff. > > > > > -- > Geoff Shang <gshang at uq.net.au> > ICQ number 43634701 > > Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments. > See http://www.fsf.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >
