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You asked how much it would take to install debian. Not source, your
personal files, staroffice... Shall I continue? :)
I suggest going through and deleting old source trees, cd /usr/src/linux
&& make clean, etc.
872167 .
Thats just my home dir.
/dev/hda3 1950050 1722615 126635 93% /
Thats my entire linux partition.
--Vincent Janelle "MCSE = Must Consult Someone Experienced"
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On Thu, 1 Oct 1998, R Garth Wood wrote:
> On Thu, 1 Oct 1998, Geoff Smith wrote:
>
> > Here's my present dilemma: when I first installed Debian, I was told a
> > 600MB partition is *more* than enough. It seems that is no longer the
> > case (although I'm really not sure why, I don't have frivolities like
>
> I had a lot of crap on my last install(more than 2 years old)
> and I only had 600MB. I guess your distro is... big boned.
>
> > games n' stuff [yet] ) My HD is 2.1 Gigs, so my Win 95 partition is a hog
> > that I'd like to shrink eventually to nothing. For now, I'd like to up my
> > Linux partition to 1-1.2 gigs. How can I do this? (there was a similar
>
> > question asked a couple weeks ago, but it involved wiping out the win95
> > partition completely) since I'm a hardcore newbie, I would really
> > appreciate not getting an answer like "just use fdisk." I know nothing
> > about partitioning. I would also appreciate a solution with minimal
> > typing.. due to a recent accident with a sharp kitchen knife, I only have
> > the use of one typing hand.
>
> Ouch. Be careful, man.