[CentOS-docs] Ambiguity on a CentOS dot Org Web Page.

Sun Feb 21 15:19:43 UTC 2010
Alan Bartlett <ajb at elrepo.org>

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.