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gripepe

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Registered: 2007-11-16

Posts: 5

How big should be ARCH partition? - very small media center

Hello,

I am planning to install another linux OS to my laptop in order to experiment with enlightment and other (non-gnome) window managers. I would use it as a small media center: play music and video, surf the web, put some desklets (rss, clock, weather, nothing more).

I would like to really do a very basic system here, as for the rest of my uses I have Ubuntu, just that it takes too much time to load, etc. Also, I want to learn something meanwhile.

What would be a minium size for the partition? all the media files would be stored elsewhere. What is really the minimum amount of modules and startup stuff that I should have? (in order to boot really fast)

Thanks

Mikko777

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From: Suomi, Finland

Registered: 2006-10-30

Posts: 837

Re: How big should be ARCH partition? - very small media center

Maybe you should install in virtualbox first, tweak it and then do a harddrive install?

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gripepe

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Registered: 2007-11-16

Posts: 5

Re: How big should be ARCH partition? - very small media center

Good Idea!

I hadn't thought of it myself. that way I would also learn things about virtualization, I hope... Could you please point me out some place to start with?

Or I could search it in google myself, don't worry. However I was also looking for some real-life experiences, say, people that have it done sth similar before and that could at least tell me in which range of MBs or Gbs I would be working, since if it would take too much space probably I won't do it.

Kiitos anyway.

Mhyrraner

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From: South Germany

Registered: 2007-02-14

Posts: 33

Re: How big should be ARCH partition? - very small media center

Can't help with virtualbox documentation. My arch always seems to be about 2~3 GB big after a while, with quite a few packages installed (xfce, e17, blackbox as wm). my hdd is only 5GB, and thats enough to work with, but obviously not enough to have a large music collection, or to copy dvds etc. If you can access data of another partition 5GB would be OK, i think.

Mhyrraner

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From: South Germany

Registered: 2007-02-14

Posts: 33

Re: How big should be ARCH partition? - very small media center

oh, i missed your other thread. i see that you planned with 300 to 500 mb's. imho that is not enough. as i said, i would make the partion about 3 to 5 gb big. you can try with, say 1gb, but then you'll propably have to do some teaking, removing all devlopment things, gcc etc, remove localization (i wouldn't use (standart) e17 then which is quite big nowadays, .. blackbox or e16 might be better)... if you really don't want to use that "much" space, i would recommend an other distro, maybe puppy. (smallest and fastest thing i've seen is 'basiclinux', but it would be a LOT of work to make it what you want).

gnud

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Registered: 2005-11-27

Posts: 182

Re: How big should be ARCH partition? - very small media center

Just FYI, my Arch media box (which has too much software installed, but not THAT much) uses 3.5G for /. All media is on seperate partitions/drives.

Last edited by gnud (2007-12-04 03:10:27)