Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3784 mails)

[Jon Pennington <cowboydren@xxxxxxxxx>]

--- "Dennis J. Tuchler" <dtuchler@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> It's an old IBM laptop which does not boot from a cdrom.  I'm
> planning on installing 7.3 when it comes.  How much space does the
> normal installation take?

Boy.  Guaging from 7.2, it's going to be a squeeze if you use SuSE's
default package selection.  Guys, I can get a fully-functional (if
not integrated) KDE desktop system with tonnes of development tools
and libs in under 400MB on other distributions; why is SuSE such a
pig? ;)  If I were you, I'd start with the "Minimum plus X" package
selection, and then add whatever else you need from there (desktop
environments, window managers, compilers, etc); following this
procedure, it should work fine.  I just did an install a few nights
ago on a 1.2G disk this way.

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