Topic: Why 3 Gb HD req'd? Will less work?

[Wei, Chou-Ke]

OK, so we happened to have a clean/clear 3 GB hard drive for our
first evaluation inst'n of E-smith 4.0 and, of course, all went
well (mostly...

But I can envisage some applications in which very little hard-
drive space at all would be needed by the end-user...

in such cases, how -little- hard drive space does it take to
succesfully install e-smith 4.0 onto?

Also, although a Pentium 60 is formally required, would a
486-class (e.g. AMD 486 running at 120 MHz) run e-smith 4.0
(e.g. for an e-mail only application for light traffic to &
from just 2 or 3 computers?

E.g. is there any code in e-smith (RedHat Linux 6.1) that
-technically- (rather than -practically-) requires Pentium
instruction set?

TIA

[Charlie Brady]

Wei, Chou-Ke wrote:

> Also, although a Pentium 60 is formally required, would a
> 486-class (e.g. AMD 486 running at 120 MHz) run e-smith 4.0
> (e.g. for an e-mail only application for light traffic to &
> from just 2 or 3 computers?
>
> E.g. is there any code in e-smith (RedHat Linux 6.1) that
> -technically- (rather than -practically-) requires Pentium
> instruction set?

No. My test machine at home was a 486-66 with 16MB of RAM and 500MB of hard drive.

Regards

Charlie

[Jason Miller]

>in such cases, how -little- hard drive space does it take to
>succesfully install e-smith 4.0 onto?

Since e-smith is just a modified Red Hat 6.1 installation, then it goes to say that the same hard disk space Red Hat requires is the bare minimum that e-smith requires, I believe around 300MB - though its always safer to round up :>

In order to provide user data space and ibay space, I would say the recommended minimum is about 1 GB.

[david barber]

I tried installing to a 250MB drive, but it whined (sorry e-smith folks) about lack of space.  I upped it to 300MB and the install completed, sans errors!  The installed code was about 215MB, plus a 25MB swap space, so they've left some slush space for logs and such.

All this was on a 486/66MHz/20MB.  I'm using it as a gateway/DHCP machine, and it works like a charm, although more horses would probably be desired for doing "real server" work.

David

[Carl Enset]

(this is an old thread and probably the wrong forum...)

A complete "hack" solution to this problem is what I did with my firewall (the 4 betas installed ok, the release version choked).

That was to temporary replace the small hard drive(s) with a spare large drive that I had laying around, and perform the installation onto the "big" disk. Then transfer the files across to the smaller hard drive(s) as per the Hard-Disk-Upgrade HOWTO.

http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/mini/Hard-Disk-Upgrade/
(http://www.linuxdoc.org/mirrors.html)

There are probably better solutions to this problem, though for me this was a quick (and dirty) solution that allowed me to split the system across multiple partitions and drives and set the partition sizes to the values that I desired.