[linux-help] Re: Linux Help List

[Bruce Bales <bbales@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Nate, Jeff and Greg,
Thanks to all of you for the help.  I begin to see that a "REAL" install of 
linux
needs a pretty substantial amount of disk space.  Since I have another Windows
computer, I have decided to re-partition the linux/windows disk and use the 
whole
1.6mb for linux.  I have the wordperfect 8 CDs and have been using WP for years,
but I had heard so much about staroffice, I wanted to try it - and I will.

bruce

Greg House wrote:

> On Thu, 10 Feb 2000, you wrote:
> > 1.6 MB disk! Boy, will challenges never cease :)
>
> That's a luxury compared to some of the ones people have wanted me to set up!
>
> I had one on a 540MB drive that dual booted DOS/Win31 and Linux. I partitioned
> it to give like 300MB to Linux and the rest to DOS. It was a tight squeeze, 
> but
> I had a nice little install of RedHat 5.1 on it, with XF86 and WindowMaker and
> about 50MB left over so my friend could actually DO something with his system.
>
> On another one, I was able to install Linux with KDE AND StarOffice on a 540MB
> drive, with about 90MB free for user files.
>
> Anyway, it can be done. If you can install StarOffice from a CD it'll be a lot
> easier, since you don't have to have space on your drive for the tar file or
> the uncompressed stuff it installs from. But what's killing you is all the
> temporary space it uses. It uses something like 100MB more then it takes to
> install during the installation process (weird...), and it's probably taking a
> pretty big chunk of that space in /tmp...which you don't have a partition for,
> so it's coming out of that tiny 50MB root partition.
>
> Regarding your question about partitioning. I've been setting them up lately
> with three partitions. One for swap (required), one root, and one for /home.
> That way if I reinstall my OS, I can keep all my files intact. Since I mess
> around with different distributions & stuff, this is convenient for me.
>
> Oh yeah, if you don't want to reinstall, you might consider WordPerfect 8
> instead. It's a pretty good word processor (more advanced then StarWriter),  
> it
> supports a TON of other companies proprietary document formats, and it's much
> smaller then StarOffice. Doesn't have a spreadsheet, but there are tons of 
> free
> spreadsheet applications available for Linux.
>
> Good luck!
> Greg
>
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