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

[Dominic F. Manno]

Norman Cohen <nacohen at mac.com> wrote:

>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.

OK, thanks.

I'll have 384MB RAM when I install Jaguar. Does that sound like 
enough, or should I look for more? (I know you can't have too much 
memory, but I don't have too much money.)
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