What are the hardware requirements of openSUSE 64 bit? Is it the same as 32 bit?
In particular, I’m concerned with how much HD space I need to install the OS.
The ISO for openSUSE x64 was 4.2 GB. Crazy!
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You need RAM>3Gb(I use Kingstone).
HDD: personally I use a western digital caviar blue 1,2Tb.
You can use a 600 gb hdd.
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if windows7 64 ran well, then 11.3 will be fast
hard drive partition size ( all are aprox. and very changeable )
/boot --100 meg
/swap --2 to 4 gig
/home --5 to 20 Gig
/ --20 to 200 gig
optional
/DATA – the rest of the drive
i have a large install and / is 22 gig , but i have A LOT of things in there
If you are concerned about disk space you can probably get a system running in less than 20 GB. The space you will need depends upon how you intend to use and configure the system. I suspect that for most users the size of the system is far less than the size of their data. 4.2GB is not a lot. Even my old core2 laptop has 2GB ram & 200GB hdd. It runs XP & 11.2 X86-64
sentimentGX4 wrote:
> The ISO for openSUSE x64 was 4.2 GB. Crazy!
that is the size of the disk which includes a WIDE variety on initial
installs from server, professional software developer platform, small
desktop system, etc etc etc…but, it only installs what you want
installed…and, that DVD has only a SMALL cross section of all the
software that IS available for free…maybe folks complain that it
does not include everything they need! (like a particle physics lab
will probably want lots more, etc)
now you can install a full up music server in not much space…like,
say a cheap mp3 player that gets lost in your pocket…
or, how much space is available on a smart phone? millions and
millions of them run Linux and provide a touch desktop…
i think these are the “official” requirements for openSUSE 11.3, i
don’t know what 11.4 will need:
System Requirements
- Pentium* III 500 MHz or higher processor (Pentium 4 2.4
GHz or higher or any AMD64 for Intel* EM64T processor
recommended) - 512 MB physical RAM (1 GB recommended)
- 3 GB available disk space (more recommended)
- 800 x 600 display resolution (1024 x 768 or higher recom-
mended)
–
DenverD
CAVEAT: http://is.gd/bpoMD [posted via NNTP w/openSUSE 10.3]
What if there were no hypothetical questions?
Yeah, but I intend to download openSUSE alongside K/Ubuntu and Windows Vista. Vista wants to hoard 240 GB for whatever reason. (I’m not going to shrink Vista’s HD space if Disk Management thinks it needs 240 GB despite currently only using half of it.) 20 GB went to a manufacturer “recovery partition”. That leaves me with ~40 GB.
After considering Ubuntu, I think I will only have ~15 GB for SUSE. 20 GB at most.
Thats pretty tight. You can get a running system but don’t expect to store much data or install a lot of programs.
I think I will only have ~15 GB for SUSE. 20 GB at most.
Use the same swap partition for both linux installs, when installing openSUSE create only ‘/’ and ‘/swap’ at this size a separate ‘/home’ creates more problems than it fixes.
It would be best to install openSUSE before ubuntu, ubuntu uses grub2 openSUSE’s grub won’t add an entry for it. you would have to do that manually if ubuntu is installed first.
Vista wants to hoard 240 GB for whatever reason. (I’m not going to shrink Vista’s HD space if Disk Management thinks it needs 240 GB despite currently only using half of it.) 20 GB went to a manufacturer “recovery partition”. That leaves me with ~40 GB.
Did you defragment the windows partition first?
In particular, I’m concerned with how much HD space I need to install the OS.
It will be very similar to the amount used by ubuntu when setup with the same or equivalent packages.
Here are a couple of tips that help manage limited free space on openSUSE temp filesand software
I am considering installing the core of OpenSuSE 11.4 on a solid-state hard drive,
and putting the rest (& data) on a large, separate drive (e.g. 1TB).
How big does the solid state drive need to be,
and which root directories would go on it?
Thanks
Mk
SSD now are very expensive. How money do you have for this?
Hi Stamostolias,
Big SSD’s are v. expensive - sure.
But I was only going to put the core of OpenSuSE 11.4 (64-bit) on the SSD. Things like:
/usr/bin, /bin, /etc
For example: will the core of OpenSuSE will fit on a 64GB or 50GB or even 30GB SSD?
And what is ‘the core’? Which directories would I put on the SSD? Which could I leave on an ordinary HD?
I have 11.4(64) loaded on this machine with no effort to conserve space and my / partition presently only contains 7.3 Gb, so you could probably get away with a pretty small SSD drive.
Please let us know how you make out, because I’m considering the same approach for my next upgrade, and I’d appreciate the feedback.
Thanks Caprus,
Actually - that’s exactly what I was doing too. First install OpenSuSE 11.4 64-bit on a 1TB drive, and then see…
Have seen 64 GB SATA-600 SSD at £ 86.46 (amazon uk). Sounds as if that would be more than enough.
Will keep you posted.
Mk
In my opinion install in SSD your operating system and in ordinary HDD try to save your other files.
Hi. I’m currently runnin oS on similar setup. I have one 40GB SSD and 2 TB HDD. The SSD holds /, /boot and /home while the HDD has /tmp, /var and /data. So far this setup has been quite nice and fast and 40GB has been enough for the SSD.
Hey i freed 120 gb for the linux opensuse and the other i left for w7 but open suse installer says that it needs more space WTF???
Pls Help.i Have 4 GB ram & i3
gadniara12
How is that 120gig space partitioned ?
is this OpenSUSE 12.1 ? or the older 11.4 ???
did you leave it NTFS
what did you pass to the installed ?
install on blank space ? if so and that 120 is NTFS there will be NO blank space
i suggest you REREAD the install instructions
and guide for posting a question , there is no real information in the post
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