[X-Newbies] Installing X on a small hard drive

[Norman Cohen]

It'll likely require more room, particularly if your machine doesn't  
have a lot of RAM. X makes "swap files" as part of its virtual memory  
scheme that can easily take up a gig or more of hard drive space.  
There are hacks to reassign the swap files to other drives or  
partitions, but these hacks may create other issues if you don't know  
too much about how X works under the hood.

Norm
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On Dec 26, 2005, at 13:35 PM, Dominic F. Manno wrote:

> I understand that on the beiges X must be installed on the first  
> partition on an HD, and that that partition must be smaller than  
> 8GB. Is it realistic to install Jaguar on the 2GB HD, or would it  
> require more room than that?