i'm still curious about what it means to say that FC3 installation requires "additional disk space" as described below.
===== The disk space requirements listed below represent the disk space taken up by Fedora Core 3 after the installation is complete. However, additional disk space is required during the installation to support the installation environment. This additional disk space corresponds to the size of /Fedora/base/stage2.img (on CD-ROM 1) plus the size of the files in /var/lib/rpm on the installed system.
In practical terms, this means that as little as an additional 90MB can be required for a minimal installation, while as much as an additional 175MB can be required for an "everything" installation. =====
additional disk space where? and i'm asking about both /Fedora/base/stage2.img, and /var/lib/rpm. thanks.
rday
On Monday 29 November 2004 23:26, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
i'm still curious about what it means to say that FC3 installation requires "additional disk space" as described below.
Seems clear to me:-) The installer has to be some place; if not on CD then on your target disk. Also it needs space to place rpms before unpacking.
===== The disk space requirements listed below represent the disk space taken up by Fedora Core 3 after the installation is complete. However, additional disk space is required during the installation to support the installation environment. This additional disk space corresponds to the size of /Fedora/base/stage2.img (on CD-ROM 1) plus the size of the files in /var/lib/rpm on the installed system.
In practical terms, this means that as little as an additional 90MB can be required for a minimal installation, while as much as an additional 175MB can be required for an "everything" installation. =====
additional disk space where? and i'm asking about both /Fedora/base/stage2.img, and /var/lib/rpm. thanks.
rday
On Tue, 30 Nov 2004, John Summerfield wrote:
On Monday 29 November 2004 23:26, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
i'm still curious about what it means to say that FC3 installation requires "additional disk space" as described below.
Seems clear to me:-)
then feel free to explain it. :-)
The installer has to be some place; if not on CD then on your target disk.
or in RAM, as some of the docs suggest, at which point there is no need for any HD space. so i still don't see what's being copied to the hard drive, or where for that matter.
Also it needs space to place rpms before unpacking.
the release notes suggest that the *additional* space needed for an install is anywhere from 90M to 175M for an "everything" install. there is no way all of the RPMs for an everything install are going to fit in 175M. so, once again, what is that additional hard drive space being used for. precisely.
rday
On Mon, Nov 29, 2004 at 06:59:18PM -0500, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
the release notes suggest that the *additional* space needed for an install is anywhere from 90M to 175M for an "everything" install. there is no way all of the RPMs for an everything install are going to fit in 175M. so, once again, what is that additional hard drive space being used for. precisely.
It doesn't download all the rpms, then install, it installs while downloading, after the install it removes the rpm. This is why it first has to figure out dependancies, once it has all the dependancies figured out, it can create a ordered list of packages to install.
-miah
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