How much room?

Titcher · n00b Joined: 14 Mar 2005 Posts: 3

Sorry if this has been asked already, but I gave it a quick search and found nothing relevant, so I thought asking would be the best option, I wish to know how much is required for a gentoo install? Minimally that is, it's for a future project, that's all.

NeddySeagoon · Posted: Mon Mar 14, 2005 10:29 pm Post subject:

Titcher,

A minimal install (no X) will fit in 1Gb. With X, and some GUI apps, allow 5Gb
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Titcher · n00b Joined: 14 Mar 2005 Posts: 3

Wow, that's pretty big, I see that flashlinux, a distro based on gentoo is reduced down to under 256MB, how is this possible?(thanks for the answer by the way)

NeddySeagoon · Posted: Mon Mar 14, 2005 10:36 pm Post subject:

Titcher,

I doubt that flashlinux has the source code in its image.
1Gb will let you do a stage 1 install without having to delete any souce code along the way.
Likewise 5Gb will allow you to install a fairly minimal GUI without deleting sources.
If you want KDE/GNOME and/or Opern Office, you would need to use the binaries.
Open office needs 3.5Gb of workspace to build.
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Titcher · n00b Joined: 14 Mar 2005 Posts: 3

Sorry for my idiotic questions, but as you can easily notice, I'm quite new to this, would it be safe for me to delete the sources afterwards? It's just, in the future I'll be needing a really small size OS and I feel gentoo has the best tradeoff of functionality and size.

Sith_Happens · Posted: Mon Mar 14, 2005 10:45 pm Post subject:

Sure, just remove all the files from /usr/portage/distfiles. If you don't use any external kernel modules, you can get rid of /usr/src/<linux-src-name> as well. Remember /usr/src/linux is just a symlink, not the actual directory. You might also want to look into using kdrive as your X implimentation as opposed to xorg, and perhaps a light wm like fluxbox. That will save you alot of space. Here is some more info on kdrive.
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NeddySeagoon · Posted: Tue Mar 15, 2005 5:54 pm Post subject:

Sith_Happens,

You can use kernel modules and still delete the content of /usr/src.
After the modules are installed, they are in /lib/modules/<kernel_name>/...
The source tree is not used until next time you need to build the kernel or build something against the kerenl.
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Sith_Happens · Posted: Tue Mar 15, 2005 5:57 pm Post subject:

I know the modules are installed in /lib/modules, however it seems whenever I change the location of /usr/src/linux without reinstalling modules they refuse to load, this is true even if I boot from my old kernel.
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