WHAT WOULD BE THE PARTATION SIZE?

[sanjaybijapur]

HAI.


in my XP system [Intel p3 455MHz,128Mb RAM]  I kept only 5GB  free space in HDD for installing the Redhat Linux 9.0,

   What is the exact size I have to make for installing the Linux server?

 :-?

[Rob Pomeroy]

That's the $64,000,000 question!  It depends entirely on what you want to do with your Linux installation.  If you want a full GUI desktop install, that's going to take up 2-4GB on its own.  Because there's so much free software available with a typical Linux distribution, it's fairly easy to install 10GB of software - before you've even started to put any data on the system.  Incidentally, you need at least 2 partitions for every Linux install - one for the swap file (virtual memory).  In your case, that partition should probably be around 256MB-400MB.

Linux is typically not so demanding on a system as Windows, but it does like memory - RAM and hard drive space.

[Dead_reckon]

i used a 10 gig partition for my linux, i dont want much out of linux... however, i wont say what i do want out of it... linux runs fine on a 10 gig partition if you dont want to install alot of stuff, would have made the partition bigger, but i only have an 80 gig hard drive in this "budget" pc my dad built, so i was limited in what space i could use, right now i only have 21 gigs free in windows, was 30 somthin before linux and a few installs on windows... ill be glad when i build my new system this summer