Hi i,m just about to install 11.2 from 4 gig dvd, what is the minimum size to be able to install system, I will be triple booting with Win xp Ubuntu I’m just after reccomended boot size I wanna share Home with Ubuntu, windows will just have 15 gig for a game not using the home hope this makes sense
When you share /home and Swap with your other Linux distribution, 20GB is plenty. But it depends on how much applics you want to intstall. I have 20Gb and it is filled 25%.
was that with the full dvd or from cd
That is a DVD standard install, updated and enhanced over the network. One does normaly not install all and everything that is on the DVD. Why would one install LAMP software when one does not intend to use it. On the other hand, there is much more in the network repos them fits on the DVD.
As said, it depends on what one needs to install. But here on the forums you will find a general 15 - 20 GB reccomendation for /. Do not forget also temporary files, logging etc. must fit there.
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With the DVD installing, KDE, development, multimedia and games I have
less than 5 GB and it grow to 13GB with a lot of apps
VampirD
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On 03/25/2010 02:06 PM, spiky001 wrote:
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> was that with the full dvd or from cd
The medium does not matter. The space required depends on what packages you
install. The difference between Live CD and DVD is that with Live CD, the
packages are loaded through the network, With DVD, they are read from the medium.
I do a lot of development and have about 13 GB on /. This is with /home using 80
GB on its own partition. Nearly all sources are on /home.
Thks I think that has ans my Question thanks a lot 4 quick response:)
hcvv wrote:
> When you share /home and Swap with your other Linux distribution
thinking out loud about all the ~/.whatever, is it really possible for
Ubuntu and openSUSE to share a /home smoothly?
i’ve never tried it, has anyone?
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palladium
If I were you I wouldn’t consider sharing /home between two operating systems - there are ways to handle that, but without proper configuration (google that, I never really tried it) this will most likely cause lots of troubles. Different versions of applications will overwrite config-files and puzzle each other.
Edit: …as palladium suggested here already. 
Yes, I have tried sharing /homes (Kubuntu & SuSE) and it totally failed. It wasn’t even possible to start a normal KDE-session in SuSE with a kubuntian /home/$user/.kde.
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I tried openSUSE - Debian homes and nothing works well, with Fedora
there is X conflicts, so I recommend to don’t share home dirs from
different distributions
VampirD
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Is it then correct to conclude that one better does not share the personal config files (mostly hidden and .kde4 prominent), but of course can share ones own data.
Nice puzzle to solve that. 
I would say a partition to mount on /home/<myself>/my-cross-distro-data/ and then not use a seperate /home partition to let every distro simply have the distro dependent part of /home/<myself>/.
When you want to serve more users like this, I would say mount the partition at e.g. /mnt/internal-home/ and then symlink from every /home/<user>/my-cross-disro=data to /mnt/internal-home/<user>.
Does anybody still follow me? I am just letting my fantasy work.
Just got back and seen this Dam now you have given me a problem lol will have to re think my harddrive partions :\
I have 100gigs 15 for win then 20gig opensuse then 20gigs seperate home ubuntu the same can i use 2gig swap shared :\
Skip Windows rotfl! Why do you need it.
But may be you should not listen to me, I would be satisfied with one and only one Linux distro also.