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Old 01-24-2008, 01:39 AM
firefox
 
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Default Re: installing Fedora 8

fetag wrote:
> On 22 Jan, 20:46, firefox <j...@ver.net> wrote:
>
>> I have a 10 GB hard drive with windows Me on it. I was planning to
>> partition the hard drive in half and install Fedora 8 on it. How much
>> space does the typical Fedora 8 installation require? Is 5GB enough?
>> Also, the computer only has 160 MB of RAM. Would it be a good idea to
>> add on the additional 96MB so it has 256MB of RAM? 256MB is the biggest
>> it can hold. I was also wondering about my modem. I use a U.S. Robotics
>> 56K modem card for Windows. Is it possible to make it work under Fedora
>> or any other Linux distribution?
>>
>> firefox
>>

>
> I think, you'd better not to install fedora. because, a basic fedora
> will need about 4G hard disk space, in addition, the memory is too
> small. if you run a popular GUI, it will be very slow. If you have
> interesting, you can try Debian or Ubuntu
>

Thanks for the info fetag. I think I will get a bigger hard drive and
add on the maximum amount of memory. I will definitely look at Debian
and Ubuntu and see if I like them.

firefox

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