CentOS docs - Feb 2010 - Ambiguity on a CentOS dot Org Web Page.

Hi Ralph,

Whilst wearing you C-devel hat, will you please have a look at a
recent forum thread [1] that has highlighted the ambiguity on the
CentOS Product Specification web page [2]. I'm asking this here, as I
guess that page really does come under documentation . . . and you are
the documentation-meister.

If it is not actually your area, please let me know who's cage bars I
should rattle.  :-)

Regards,
Alan.

[1] http://www.centos.org/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=24904&start=0
[2] http://www.centos.org/product.html

On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 4:27 PM, Alan Bartlett <ajb at elrepo.org>
wrote:
> Hi Ralph,
>
> Whilst wearing you C-devel hat, will you please have a look at a
> recent forum thread [1] that has highlighted the ambiguity on the
> CentOS Product Specification web page [2]. I'm asking this here, as I
> guess that page really does come under documentation . . . and you are
> the documentation-meister.
Any suggestion as to what should be there? I have no idea how much
disk space is taken by a "default" install, as I tend not to do those.

I could put a 3GB there, which seems to be a sound amount of disk
space for that.

Regards,

Ralph

Phil Schaffner wrote on 02/19/2010 05:29 PM:
> Phil Schaffner wrote on 02/19/2010 05:17 PM:
> ...Could run an i386 install too, but this is
>> probably good enough.
> 
> Just for grins - tried the i386 install with 1GB RAM on a 3GB disk and 
> got an error that it needed 1924MB and there was not enough space, so 
> looks like the i386 minimum is around 3.5-4GB.
OK - last self-reply, I promise.  :-)

Tried i386 with 5GB and it got further but errored out after the 
installation started with a message about needing 97MB on / so I 
conclude that i386 needs >5GB to install, and so x86_64 definitely needs 
 >5GB for a default install also, despite the installed system having a 
bit of headroom.  6GB seems like a good minimum number, with the caveat 
that it is not really enough for a workable system over time.

On 21 February 2010 15:14, Ralph Angenendt <ralph.angenendt at gmail.com>
wrote:
> Am 21.02.10 15:09, schrieb Alan Bartlett:
>
>> Thanks for all your testing Phil. I happily run a C-5 workstation with
>> a total (physical) disk size of 25 GB. (And you know the sort of
>> things I regularly do with it.)
>
> An "Everything" install (checking all available checkboxes) needs
11G on
> / for installation, IIRC.
>
>> I guess the real question is: What was that section of the web page
>> *really* intending to show when it was first written? Perhaps Donavan
>> can remember?
>
> I know it was there, forgot about it, but have no idea if this is
> something "copied" from upstream and neither what those numbers
mean.
I speculated in the above quoted forum-thread that the values may
relate to the minimum disk space required for a *minimal* installation
-- all check boxes cleared.

Alan.

On Sun, Feb 21, 2010 at 7:14 AM, Ralph Angenendt
<ralph.angenendt at gmail.com> wrote:
> Am 21.02.10 15:09, schrieb Alan Bartlett:
>> I guess the real question is: What was that section of the web page
>> *really* intending to show when it was first written? Perhaps Donavan
>> can remember?
>
> I know it was there, forgot about it, but have no idea if this is
> something "copied" from upstream and neither what those numbers
mean.
The product web page ( http://www.centos.org/product.html ) was, as I
recall, created by hughesjr based on a page found somewhere upstream.
Now I cannot remember where that page is. So, I believe many of the
numbers were originally from there.

Akemi