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Would 5GB of space be sufficient if i installed SuSe on my old Toshiba laptop.I was thinking of replacing the Ubuntu 8.04 I already dualboot with XP sp2 with openSuSe ...
  1. 11-08-2008 #1
    Kinyua
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    Cool I only have 5GB free can i squeeze SuSe here

    Would 5GB of space be sufficient if i installed SuSe on my old Toshiba laptop.I was thinking of replacing the Ubuntu 8.04 I already dualboot with XP sp2 with openSuSe simply because I admire SuSe besides having green as my favourite colour!

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    only if you can do a bare minimum install & don't want to store stuff in /home.my install including swap took up 3GB, then, with updates, increased to 4.5GB. Mind you, i did have SuSE on a 6Gb drive once,but that was SUSE 8.2, waaaaay back then.
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    5GB space is not enough. You should allocate atleast 8-10 GB for Suse.
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    I agree with these guys and think it's not worth the effort to try to install to a 5 GB partition. Suse is one of the heavier distros and if you should add one file too many, it won't boot any more.

    Maybe you can shrink some other partitions a bit then expand the Suse partition. The PartedMagic LiveCD is a good tool that can be used for doing that.
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    Quote Originally Posted by ozar View Post
    ... Suse is one of the heavier distros
    I agree. That's a drawback of SuSE. If you are short on disk space you should look for other distibutions. I enjoy SuSE also - so you either have to get at least 10 GB of disk space - or use DSL
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  6. 11-13-2008 #6
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    xperience tells me reserve a space greater than 10 GB.(that is if you let it make partitions automatically.) If manual partitioning is your prefered choice 5GB "might work" only for a short time.
    Just go for space>10
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