Minimum disk space requirements?

[Colin Watson]

On Wed, Nov 10, 2004 at 12:35:39PM -0600, azz wrote:
> What if instead of just copying all the debs to a local harddrive, the
> installer would
> 
> -Install the base system
> -Check the available disk space for the local deb archive (On whatever
> partition) before just copying the packages.
> -If the available space is greater than, say 1 Gig, copy the debs from
> cd.
> -If the space was between 500 megs and 1 Gig, ask the user what they
> prefer.
> -If the space was is than 500 megs, do not copy and the package
> installation would happen from cd.

We may consider doing something like this for Hoary, yes.

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Colin Watson                                    [cjwatson at canonical.com]