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From: nuspljj@mentor.cc.purdue.edu (Joseph J. Nuspl Jr.)
Subject: X space requirements
Message-ID: <Bv2K61.5ow@mentor.cc.purdue.edu>
Organization: Purdue University
Date: Thu, 24 Sep 1992 06:18:00 GMT
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In reading through the documentation for X386, ~61M of diskspace is
needed for the binaries.

In reading the documentation for X11 for Linux ~5.5M needed for
the base system -- 21M for full system.

This is not Linux advocacy, I would like to run X but I only have ~32M free.


Thanks.


Joseph J. Nuspl Jr.
nuspljj@mentor.cc.purdue.edu