Since I am totally ignorant of everything in the Linux world, I tend
to believe what I read and what people who have experience of Linux tell
me. In one guide for Linux newbies it is recommended that an 80 MB root
partition is quite sufficient, and people have told me that Linux programs
tak
drxthe initial installation puts virtually nothing in a /home
partition. So you're trying to do an "everything" install with just 900
megabytes of space allocated to store all of the compressed software on
a 600+ megabyte CD. The installation is reporting to you that it needs,
at a minimum,
On Thu, 25 Nov 1999,drx wrote:
| It can't be correct that the root partition has to be at least 1426
| megabytes, can it? That's right -- one thousand four hundred and
| twenty-six megabytes?
|
| The reason I ask is that this is what I am told during installation.
| I'll take it
Do you intend to run a news group or YP server? How about objective C
development? My point here is "You don't need to install everything".
Your not going to use most of it so don't waist the space. The error
message your getting is totally logical, and I don't see what your
unsure of. You want to
It can't be correct that the root partition has to be at least 1426
megabytes, can it? That's right -- one thousand four hundred and
twenty-six megabytes?
The reason I ask is that this is what I am told during installation.
I'll take it from the beginning:
I have an EIDE disk, 4.
