twn_onizuka Posted October 2, 2005 Report Share Posted October 2, 2005 Hello, God im enjoying linux, i cant wait for it to take over my life...until i get my crossover to work everything will perfect...anyway heres my query... I am restricted with hard-drive space...max. 6gigs give or take...anyway usual MDK 2005 LE installation contains extras that are not needed; is there a way for me to strip down the installation and allow me to bring the stripped down setting back when ever i reinstall stuff? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PeterPanic Posted October 2, 2005 Report Share Posted October 2, 2005 Well, a "normal" Installation will fit on 3GB without problems.. With millions of things installed. And with a 2GB /home-Partition :-) Of course, you should only select the packages you need (OK, as a newbie you won't know what you need, so better let things unchanged...) - And when your needs change (i.e. some Software or Forum says you should install package xyz.rpm, you can choose to do that afterwards. And if you find some package not to be as cool as you imagined, uninstall it (e.g. I uninstalled some games because they didn't really fascinate me for long...) Just don't click on the "all" checkbox (not even "all" Games or "all" Office) when installing. If you want to know if you need a certain package before installing it, search or ask here. Cya. PeterPanic Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
twn_onizuka Posted October 2, 2005 Author Report Share Posted October 2, 2005 Thanks...im pretty werid in that i hate having excess 'crap' installed...i did it with windows XP...M$ installed about 3 gigs of files....i cut it down to 1.4gigs...ive realised linux doesnt do that ... i guess ive just developed a thing for it ... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scarecrow Posted October 2, 2005 Report Share Posted October 2, 2005 KDE needs quite a bit of HD space, Gnome less and XFCE even less. You can always flush your RPM cache to empty some HD space (if you have installed many packages then the RPM cache can easily be more than 1 gig). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daniewicz Posted October 2, 2005 Report Share Posted October 2, 2005 I thought the rpm cache flushed itself by default. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scarecrow Posted October 2, 2005 Report Share Posted October 2, 2005 I thought the rpm cache flushed itself by default. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Not using mandy currently, but as far as I can remember new RPM's were stored by default in /var/cache/rpm or a dir close to that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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