Lxde install

[cstrike77]

Question from a noob.

How much disk space do you need to install? I only have a 1.3 gig drive free, and don't want to erase my 10 gig w/xp on my laptop. I can boot the live cd on this ancient thing (celeron 600, 128 meg ram)

I was browsing the cd and it looks like there is nothing in the grub dir, so guessing that you can't do a dual boot install.

Thanks All!

[Neal ManBear]

1.3GB? Hmm...... I believe that may be too small. You'd need to have a /swap partition of 256MB minimum and a 2.1GB / (root) partition. That would be just the basic system installed. You'd not be able to add extra apps.

As for dual-booting, grub is set up on installation, not on the liveCD. I've dual booted all the DE iso releases of PCLinuxOS from PCLXDE without issue.

[ka9yhd]

I have been running 2009.4 PClos-LXDE for quite some time now on my laptop with a dual boot with XP and not had any issues.  During the install Grub will be configured for booting into either LXDE, first option and XP as the second O/S to load.

Also there is a partition manager in the installer to where you can create and manage partitions.

[cstrike77]

1.3GB? Hmm...... I believe that may be too small. You'd need to have a /swap partition of 256MB minimum and a 2.1GB / (root) partition. That would be just the basic system installed. You'd not be able to add extra apps.

As for dual-booting, grub is set up on installation, not on the liveCD. I've dual booted all the DE iso releases of PCLinuxOS from PCLXDE without issue.

Oh well, tried doing a dual boot, not enough space free on my 10 gig w/xp on it to set it up. Wish I had another drive for the laptop to really give it a try.

Tks all

[ka9yhd]

If you should decide on a larger hard drive, then you could do a dual boot.

There is another option.  A virtual box.  You can run XP inside Linux.

[tuxman]

There is another option.  A virtual box.  You can run XP inside Linux.

Hah, does virtualbox work with 128 Mb RAM? Man said

(celeron 600, 128 meg ram)

It isn't enough for virtualbox...
As a variant is a just resizing of win partition.

[skyhawk]

If you would like to keep and use the laptop for PCLinuxOS 2009.4 LXDE, give some consideration to buying a larger hard drive. I have bought refurbished desktop hard drives from:

http://www.alancomputech.com

with satisfactory results. The prices I paid were very low. I have also purchased refurbished CDRW drives from this company.

[coonhunter]

I am thinking of giving LXDE a whirl.This may sound like a dumb question but are the repos to the LXDE version identical to the normal PCLOS KDE version?Will the repository packages already compiled for the KDE platform run on LXDE as well?

[Neal ManBear]

I am thinking of giving LXDE a whirl.This may sound like a dumb question but are the repos to the LXDE version identical to the normal PCLOS KDE version?Will the repository packages already compiled for the KDE platform run on LXDE as well?

Yes. The repos are the same; i.e. the packages for lxde are in the same repos as for kde, gnome, enlightenment and xfce, and they all work on the same system.

[coonhunter]

Thanks for the quick reply Neal.

If the repos are the same then does that mean that the kde applications using the qt toolkit will run on lxde or do only the GTK+ applications run on it?

How can i tell if a package is designed to run only on kde and not on LXDE?

[Neal ManBear]

LXDE is GTK based, but that doesn't say that QT apps won't run on PCLXDE. Adding any kde/qt apps will pull in any dependencies needed. Add what you need to.

[coonhunter]

LXDE is GTK based, but that doesn't say that QT apps won't run on PCLXDE. Adding any kde/qt apps will pull in any dependencies needed. Add what you need to.

Excellent..i was wondering whether it would restrict the choice of packages that i could install.