<div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Jun 8, 2008 at 5:17 PM, Dan Shearer <<a href="mailto:dan@shearer.org">dan@shearer.org</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> <div class="Ih2E3d">On Sun, Jun 08, 2008 at 11:35:59AM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: </div><div class="Ih2E3d">> I don't know where the 8GB disk figure comes from.  I continued to do all of > my ISO testing in a 4GB disk slice up to the very end of the release cycle. > I'm guessing this recommendation is an estimate of 4GB for the system, 4GB > for user data? </div>I think minimum disk is not possible to encapsulate without a formula, because at the lower end modern RAM requirements introduce a very large percentage error because of swap sizes. Eg 8G of disk could have > 25% of space lost if the machine has 2Gb of RAM, guaranteed to be so if you want to use hibernation. Generous RAM and miserly disk makes sense in a lot of virtualised desktop situations. So, as an example and with some explanation: 4G+3G+125%*RAM ? I am guessing the equation used by the installer is more complicated, but I couldn't easily find it in the ubiquity tree. </blockquote></div> Wandering if we could change the "is required" sentence to "we recommend at least" . Hard to tell how ninja the user is. -- Glauber Machado Rodrigues PSL-MA jabber: <a href="mailto:glauber.rodrigues@jabber.org">glauber.rodrigues@jabber.org</a> Opções desconhecidas do gcc: gcc --bend-finger=padre_quevedo O que faz: dobra o dedo do Padre Quevedo durante a execução do código compilado. Não uso termos em latim, mas poderia: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Latin_phrases_(full)">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Latin_phrases_(full)</a> A ignorância é um mecanismo que capacita um tomate a saber de tudo. "Que os fontes estejam com você..."