[Mageia-discuss] Help texts for Beginner in Mageia Wiki, in English

macxi terraagua at gmail.com
Sat Feb 9 12:48:30 CET 2013


Em sáb 09 fev 2013, às 11:47:58, Pierre Jarillon escreveu:
> Le samedi 9 février 2013 03:55:30, macxi a écrit :
> > > The size of the / partition in the example is too small.
> > > 
> > > The size used on the root partitions of my disks, is:
> > >   4.7GB  5.2GB  4.5GB  4.4GB(old Mdv)  6.7GB  6.6GB
> 
> https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Hd_partition_in_Mageia_2_for_beginners#Create_ROO
> T_Partition
> > > At least tell that 4.8GB is the minimum recommended size.
> > 
> > I agree with you, I think very little, I prefer with 6 GB, but the site of
> > 
> > Mageia says that the minimum requirement is 1 GB:
> > | https://www.mageia.org/en/support/
> > 
> > "Hardware Requirements:
> > (...)
> > Storage (HDD): 1GB for a minimal installation, 6GB for a full setup;"
> > 
> > I don't know how to improve this text:
> > ("the minimum can even be 2GB, but more than 6GB would be reasonable. More
> > than 20GB is not needed".)
> 
> Be careful, I am not a native english speaker, but my opinion is:

Ok, I also do not,
I hope that other native English speakers to help correct errors.
I am very grateful to Marja and Dbg already made ​​some corrections.
 
> In special cases, the minimum can even be 2GB. As a standard installation
> needs 4 to 5GB, consider that 6GB is the minimum size and 10 to 12GB is
> recommended.  More than 20GB is not needed.

Done:
(in special cases, the minimum can even be 1GB or 2GB, but more than 6GB would 
be recommended. More than 20GB is not needed). See "Hardware Requirements"

| 
https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Hd_partition_in_Mageia_2_for_beginners#Create_ROOT_Partition

> Perhaps an explanation:
> The system needs to use temporary and useful files in /tmp and in /var (log
> and spooling files). A good advice is to have at least 1GB free.


I do not know how it's possible, but the Mageia site indicates that the 
minimum to install Mageia is 1GB: 

https://www.mageia.org/en/support/
"Storage (HDD): 1GB for a minimal installation, 6GB for a full setup; 


Thanks  :)



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