Davor Balder wrote:
G'day to all,
I am planning to install Linux on my friends computer... I am thinking of
Debian Potato just for start... I think he has 4 GB hard drive... His sister
may be using Windoze, but he would like to start off with Linux. So, my
question is, what can I fit onto 1 Gig. (I am running it all on comfy 20 Gig,
but some people don't have such luxury...)...
Which window manager should be deployed? :-)
Have a great Easter break,
Davor
If you leave it as one big / partition (plus swap partition), so that
you don't "waste" space by having too large of a partition "here" when
the space is needed "there", you can get a complete workstation setup in
1 GB. You can't expect to do any big development (the kernel source eats
up a pretty good chunk of space, for example). You may need to be a bit
selective to keep space free; like, you might not want to install both
KDE and gnome.
I prefer icewm because it's light, fast, and reasonably "intuitive" for
Windows users, but you shouldn't have any reason for space to be the
determining factor. Even if you want a full "environment" rather than
just a wm, like KDE, space probably won't be an issue.
Kent
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