School Project; please read

[NoOp]

On 10/16/2007 01:46 PM, Brian Fahrlander wrote:

> 
>      They have all Windows boxes; probably 2k3 or XP. Vista, if they 
> hurt someone in a past life...it is enough to have them resize, say, 5G 
> of their drives to install Linux?  How tough is that? (I've not 
> maintained Windows this century...)
> 

I would very much recommend that you allow *at least* 10G. 5G is minimal
- my test server has 8G drives and I'm constantly running out of space
just from odds & ends test programs. Further, I had less than 1G left on
the drive and found that I couldn't do the Gutsy upgrade without freeing
up about 1.9G first.

Unless you are using Knoppix (or have some very high powered machines
with tons of ram) I'd recommend staying away from Live CD's. There is
nothing more embarrassing than trying to bring up an Ubuntu Live CD on
an old machine with only 256M or even 512M in front of a class.