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Operating Systems => Linux and UNIX => Topic started by: Xeen on 4 April 2004, 23:59

Title: Mandrake 10.0
Post by: Xeen on 4 April 2004, 23:59

I am going to download and install Mandrake 10.0 this week. I need to know two things about it that I cant seem to find answers to:

1. How many of the four installation disks do I need. 4 disks for an OS is a bit too much in my opinion.

2. What are the system requirements? I plan to install this on an old PC.

Title: Mandrake 10.0
Post by: Refalm on 5 April 2004, 00:44

I guess you only need 3 or 2. One is for l10n, and since you're English speaking anyway...

The requirements for Mandrake are probably 96 MB of RAM at least. I've noticed 9.2 running slower than Slackware.

Title: Mandrake 10.0
Post by: Xeen on 5 April 2004, 00:50

Oops..I forgot to mention by system requirements I meant how much disk space? I only have 5 gigs available.

Title: Mandrake 10.0
Post by: WMD on 5 April 2004, 01:05

You could install it into 2-3 gig.  Plus some swap space...

Title: Mandrake 10.0
Post by: DukePuke on 5 April 2004, 15:05

How much space is needed for swap? I dedicated 400 megs for my slack, dunno is it much or no

Title: Mandrake 10.0
Post by: Doogee on 5 April 2004, 16:38

400 is generally pretty good.

Title: Mandrake 10.0
Post by: DukePuke on 5 April 2004, 17:07

ho damn how good. Then i installed slack i planeed to do "small version swap" or whaterver and dedicate 128 megs for it (maximum)

but i thought , "fuck it, i will give you more space, just wait"

[ April 05, 2004: Message edited by: DukePuke ]

Title: Mandrake 10.0
Post by: WMD on 5 April 2004, 22:43

^ you have 128MB ram, right?  You could've gotten away with 200, but having more won't hurt.  ;)