On Nov 21, 11:08am, Kjetil Bernhard Thomassen wrote:
> Subject: Re: RapIDE Installation problems...
> > From: "Daniel Blueman (5) (CURRICULUM)" <5DBLUEMAN@qeliz.ac.uk>
> > Date: Thu, 21 Nov 1996 09:52:00 -0000
> >
> > I have just spent the afternoon yesterday backing up and reformating my
> > (425MB)
> > harddisc with a (250MB) partition for RiscBSD.
>
> You obviously don't intend to run X?
>
> If you want that you should allocate at least 400 MB.
>
> With only 250 MB I guess that you may be able to install X, but
> you would not have much space for other sets and/or data.
>
> I would recommend at least 500 MB, and preferably 1 GB if you want
> to do some compiling.

I usually recommend a minimum of 400MB on the grounds that thats how much I had
when I started developing X (mind you, I had to throw away things like nfs
first). That doesn't give you a lot of elbow room, but it is just about enough
to be useful for serious work.

Cheers

Rob

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