are 10 gb enough for vista?

I couldn't get it to install on an old 10G machine.

"Henry" <Henry@nomail.com> wrote in message
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> Vista uses a little more than 6gb, it should run ok, I am using a 15gb
> western digital hard drive for vista currently have 5552 installed on my
> test machine.
>
> "John Jay Smith" <-> wrote in message
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>> are 10 gb enough for vista?
>>
>>
>> If not how much (minimum?) Just to see it loading and look around to see
>> the latest improvments.
>>
>> I want to install the pre RC1 on a real machine not a VM because on VM
>> its too slow..
>>
>> but my test machine has a small disk....
>>
>> thanks
>>

>
>

The minimum system requirement for a clean install is a 40GB drive with 15GB
free. Beta 2 required a little over 11GB to install.

"John Jay Smith" <-> wrote in message
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> are 10 gb enough for vista?
>
>
> If not how much (minimum?) Just to see it loading and look around to see
> the latest improvments.
>
> I want to install the pre RC1 on a real machine not a VM because on VM its
> too slow..
>
> but my test machine has a small disk....
>
> thanks
>

why 40 if you use only 15 of it, and not a 15 gb disk?
Is this ribbon logic?

lol

I installed on a 15gb disk (beta 2) but I am wondering if I can get away
with less...

how about this scenario? You install it on a bigger partition.. (because it
needs space to unpack.)
then you shrink the partition with a partition manager software... hehe

I am full of tricks aint I?


"Colin Barnhorst" <colinbarharst(remove)@msn.com> wrote in message
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> The minimum system requirement for a clean install is a 40GB drive with
> 15GB free. Beta 2 required a little over 11GB to install.
>
> "John Jay Smith" <-> wrote in message
> news:%23EoKvmizGHA.3908@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl...

>> are 10 gb enough for vista?
>>
>>
>> If not how much (minimum?) Just to see it loading and look around to see
>> the latest improvments.
>>
>> I want to install the pre RC1 on a real machine not a VM because on VM
>> its too slow..
>>
>> but my test machine has a small disk....
>>
>> thanks
>>

>
>

That is what it has said on GetReady all along.
a.. 40 GB of hard drive capacity with 15 GB free space.
I am just quoting.

It is the case that I have successfully used a 16GB virtual hard drive to
install many beta 1 and beta 2 releases (in Virtual PC).

"John Jay Smith" <-> wrote in message
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> why 40 if you use only 15 of it, and not a 15 gb disk?
> Is this ribbon logic?
>
> lol
>
> I installed on a 15gb disk (beta 2) but I am wondering if I can get away
> with less...
>
> how about this scenario? You install it on a bigger partition.. (because
> it needs space to unpack.)
> then you shrink the partition with a partition manager software... hehe
>
> I am full of tricks aint I?
>
>
> "Colin Barnhorst" <colinbarharst(remove)@msn.com> wrote in message
> news:uXer2cjzGHA.4448@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...

>> The minimum system requirement for a clean install is a 40GB drive with
>> 15GB free. Beta 2 required a little over 11GB to install.
>>
>> "John Jay Smith" <-> wrote in message
>> news:%23EoKvmizGHA.3908@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl...

>>> are 10 gb enough for vista?
>>>
>>>
>>> If not how much (minimum?) Just to see it loading and look around to see
>>> the latest improvments.
>>>
>>> I want to install the pre RC1 on a real machine not a VM because on VM
>>> its too slow..
>>>
>>> but my test machine has a small disk....
>>>
>>> thanks
>>>

>>
>>

>
>

I could install on a 12GB partition.

I don't think so. The minimum requirement is 15GB free. There is more than
just Vista code. You have to allow for temp files, paging file, and 15% of
the drive space is used by VSS.

"kateikyoushii" <kateikyoushii@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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>I could install on a 12GB partition.