[ltp] 600x

[j_f_clark]

At 05:54 PM 10/26/2003 -0330, Adam wrote:
>I was browsing this link on a thinkpad:
>
>http://electriclichen.com/people/jgleason/thinkpad.html
>
>I followed steps at #13 to partition the drive. And then the RH claims
>that "Your root partition is less than 250 megabytes which is usually
>too small to install Red Hat Linux."
>
>Can you explain how it reaches this conclusion?

I am not sure where you are at in this process.  I have installed RH 6, 7, 
and 8 on either the 600E or  the 600X.  In particular, I have installed and 
used RH 8.2 on my 600X.  Incidentally, I have a 2 GB partition for Win98 
and another smaller FAT partition for shared files.  Red Hat, and Mandrake, 
let you select packages before the installation starts.  Usually, I use 
"select individual packages".  Nevertheless, when you get to the point of 
selecting packages, you should see a screen showing the default package 
selection and underneath the list you should see two numbers like 
"1200/3600".  The first number is the total space required by the packages 
and other software.  The second number is the total space required to 
install everything.  Red Hat should show you a running total of required 
space as you add or remove packages from the list.

Not all of that space has to be in your root partition.  A lot of it goes 
in /usr, if you have a separate /usr partition.  But you could install 
everything in a single partition.

I have a 10 GB hard drive.  So I have plenty of space.  You haven't 
mentioned what size drive you are using.  Since your earlier posts 
indicated that you couldn't install Windows, I assume you can let Red 
Hat/Anaconda have the whole disk and do its thing which should eliminate 
your problems.  Later you can find out what you really need and do another 
install.

If you are going to insist on creating your own partitions, I am guessing 
that RH is going to want around 1 GB for the root ("/") and 2 GB for "/usr" 
and perhaps 1 GB for /home.  These numbers are a lot bigger than what you 
actually need.  But you seem to have the space and you need to get that 
first install under your belt.

Joe Clark