RH 8 Disk space used?

[pairustwo]

From the Official Red Hat Installation guide page 17:
Personal Desktop installation allow: 1.5 gb of disk space. With office productivity software (and a group of other software packages) up to 4 gb.

WHAT? I was hoping to install on my old Toshiba Sattalite with a 2 gb hard drive.

Does RH really require this much space? I've been using Windows 2000 and Office XP (Word Excel and Power Point at least) on this old lap top and only used 1.5 gb. I thought the term bloatware was for windows.

pairustwo

[hlrguy]

It isn't bloatware when basically, you get all the software in one package that would probably cost $3,000 in MS to become comparably equiped. i.e. Web Server, Mail Server, MySQL, Offce suite, the list is honestly endless. It may not be as easy to use as the other OS's stuff (more reliable, I leave that up to you to decide). You get, 2 wordprocessing suites, that is SUITES, you get 4 word processors, browsers....

The above said, do a stripped down minimal install, then just add the apps you want. The personal workstation will still install all the multimedia, browser, text editors, etc that you could want. I would be willing to bet that you COULD do a custom install, still have KDE and come in around 700 Mbytes.

Choose the lightest personal desktop, install OpenOffice after, then you can add, piecemeal what you want after.

hlrguy

[pairustwo]

So I looked at the total package list over at the Red Hat site.
There seems to be hundreds of programs (a lot anyway).
Is there a list of essential packages and programs for a minimal or at least a stipped down install somewhere?


Thanks all
Pairustwo

[hlrguy]

I would search here for 'favorite programs'. There are lots of threads on those. I really can't be more specific because I don't know what you want/need. You don't want the development environment, you don't need any of the server packages (apache, sendmail, mysql, etc) cause you aren't going to run a server on your machine. I would personally skip Koffice, install OpenOffice. If you have to interface with *.doc or *.ppt, Openoffice it is. If not, then Koffice is great and smaller. It is NOT as good as openoffice with word, ppt docs.

You can skip the games, or only install what you want. When you install, you get to pick and choose and the descriptions are pretty good.

hlrguy

[d3vpsaux]

Originally posted by pairustwo
WHAT? I was hoping to install on my old Toshiba Sattalite with a 2 gb hard drive.

pairustwo [/B]

I definitely agree with doing a minimal install and adding packages later. I remember back in the day when I squeezed RedHat 5 (minimal install 250MB) down to 180MB with room to spare on a Toshiba Laptop. Don't be discouraged.

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