Книга: Fedora™ Unleashed, 2008 edition

Planning for Hard Drive Storage for Your Fedora Installation

Planning for Hard Drive Storage for Your Fedora Installation

Making room for Fedora requires you to decide on how to use existing hard drive space. You might decide to replace existing hard drives entirely, for example, or you might decide to use only one operating system on your computer, making partitioning unnecessary. A full install from this book's DVD will require at least 7GB hard drive space just for the software, so if you plan to install everything, a 10GB hard drive could be ideal for a workstation. Note that depending on how you plan to use Linux, a smaller-capacity disk can be used, or a disk capacity many times the size of your system will be required.

The Fedora installer no longer provides different installation classes. Instead it allows you a lot of control over the software that you want to install. However, you can specify whether you want to install tools for productivity and development and can specific packages according to your exact requirements. Fedora computes the storage space required when you are selecting packages, so you can always be sure that you have sufficient hard drive space before it starts to install. Of course, if you are after a minimalist installation, here are some software packages you might want to consider passing up in the installation process for as small a system as possible:

? X

? Gnome

? KDE

? Any graphical Internet tools

? Office/productivity applications

? Documentation

? Sound and video applications and utilities

? Any development software or libraries

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