Memory Considerations

[Thomas Ward]

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 at twmi.rr.com>
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.
>
>
>
>
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