my laptop consists of 80GB harddisk. I want to insatll linux operating in my laptop so can anyone tell me how much space required to install linux operating system.
Anywhere from 100MB to 15GB depending on the distro and the packages selected during install.
Answered by Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams on October 11, 2010.
I would say, for most "big" distributions (Ubuntu, Linux Mint, Fedora etc):
Answered by kolobos on October 11, 2010.
The latest version of Ubuntu, for example takes 2.9GB without any extra packages. As noted above, 80GB is plenty.
Answered by tombull89 on October 11, 2010.
It really depends on the distribution you use and the software you select to install. I've installed micro distributions which took up roughly 100M or so. An 80GB disk is more than enough for an installation.
Answered by John T on October 11, 2010.
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