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    Senior Member FrnchDp's Avatar
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    Building a Linux box.. how much HDD space?

    What's the happening fellas (& gals I suppose!)

    I'm in the process of converting my old box (450mhz) into a linux box for the sheer hell of wanting to try it out!.. Does anybody recommend any particular size Hard Drive?

    I wasn't looking to get anything bigger than 5gb, and I can get my hands on a smaller one, I might do that.. Any reason why I should get something bigger than 5gb?? Any suggestions?

    I was looking to install Mandrake 9.1 on it..


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    Use the 5 gig and get your hands on the smaller one and use it for the swap drive.

    Used Mandrake myself not long ago till i had to redo HD. Nice O/S. Trying to figure out pc to put it on again.

    Forget size exactly but seems it was around 2 gig or so. Depends on what you install of course.

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    I have Mandrake 9.2 on a 5 Gig partition right now with no problems.

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    The new Red Hat Severn beta with everything installed takes up 5.9 GB plus the boot and swap file for a total of 6+ GB.

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    Sure, try out Linux, difficult for most, but a pretty cool OS. Drake 9.1/2 are fine and multimedia like DVD playback is usually is a little easier to setup in Drake than some of the other Linux flavors...if you can get a hold of SuSE 8.2 or 9 you will probably be have better out-of-box hardware support than other Linux distros ...

    good luck.


    for a free online Linux course visit www.linux.org and look under courses

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    Depends on what you want to do - you can make a very small installation of linux or it can be bloated. I used a linux box for years during school with a 2.1GB HDD. Now i've got an Ultra 1 Creator with a 4.7GB SCSI HDD running Debian and still I have ton's of space. I keep all the heavy stuff on the Windows machine

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    Thanks for the link Cmonster.. I'll be browsing through that for a while!

    And thanks for all the info guys.. much appreciated. I'll be getting a small drive for that box. I don't really plan on doing much heavy proggies with my linux box.. I just want to use it and learn.. I've been playing around with puters for almost 20 yrs and I want to try something else, just for knowledge sake..

    Heck, I even know the basics to running a Mac

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