Hello Bob ! Thank you and also Hubert, Jan, Jonathan, Shawn for your answers ! I suppose this is a late reply on my request to debian-laptop from Oct 22 ?:
Bob Hilliard (Samstag, 7. Dezember 2002 13:52 ) : > Shawn Lamson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I just put in a new HD (80Gigs of which only 32G are used currently > > b/c<br> my bios is old) and I put Win2k on the first 15 Gigs; then a Lin > > Swap<br> drive of 512Megs; then my Debian install of Sarge on various > > partitions<br> Different people agreed that one would need not more than about 6 to max. 12 GB for running both Win2000 and Linux, depending on what will be installed, and the smallest without too much user-data, i suppose. Now I've just installed Debian Woody 3.0 with KDE and GNOME and Enlightment ( activated in 2 user-accounts ), and a lot of net-stuff, and Documentation like info2www and dwww with apache. This uses about 1,5 GB by now. /var is on a 500 MB extra-partition ( I will install wwwoffle soon, which may fill up its cache in /var up to more than 200 MB ). I used to install both OpenOffice and Staroffice in /opt which makes together about 400 MB. ( Someday maybe stuff like GIS or a Java-RE, but I didn't consider yet.) Pictures and docs will be stored on a exchange-partition, which i count to neither linux nor win here. So, in the end my configuration will need about 2 GB for the 'personal' system-installation + 500 MB /var, + 500 MB /tmp, + 500 MB swap which makes in summary about 3,5 GB for Linux, without any exchange-data. For Win2000 i provided 3 GB, since i will use it rather extensivley. The exchange-partition is 500 MB ( which maybe too less, however it's possible to expand this or linux still into free space ). For my purposes ( desktop and some networks ), minimal 7 GB for both OS and some 'usual' desktop-data will be enough this time.* Greeetings- -- michl *There is an additional ( laptop-specific ) hibernation-partition of 500 MB. On Tue, Oct 22, 2002 at 07:34:18PM +0200, mw wrote: > Hello List. > > I am trying to buy a used laptop on ebay next time, but there's one > question i'm quite unsure yet. > I would like to install both linux (debian ) and windows ( probably 2000 ) > because i want to use it for networking exercises with my good old desktop > box here. > I wonder how much disk space i will need. > I remember someone recommended to give win2000 about 10 GB. > But I would not need word or excell or such office stuff. (...)
