[Eug-lug] Knoppix 5.1.1

[Neil Parker]

You wrote,
>Hello all, I have been trying for the last 2 days to download Knoppix 5.1.1
>dvd iso and no matter if I try a torrent or plain iso, I get a "disk is out
>of space" message.This is on both my tower and laptop.Both have plenty of
>space ?
>Any ideas why ?

You aren't by any chance trying to save the ISO on a Windows FAT partition,
are you?  If I'm remembering correctly, FAT filesystems can't handle files
larger than 4 GB.

>The other thing is, in preparing for the install I want to have my ext2 set
>up and have read different things about the awpa file size.Some say twice
>the size of your ram-I have 1 gig-so that would make a 2 gig swap.Others
>say have a max of 512 megs of swap.Which is right ?

Back in Ye Olde Days, the conventional wisdom was that your swap space
should be two or three times your RAM, but no more, on the theory that if
you ever need more than that, your system is thrashing so hard that no work
can get done.

The average amount of RAM in today's computers is two or three orders of
magnitude greater than it was back then, so it's debatable whether the old
conventional wisdom still holds.  On my current machine, I'm still using
the old rule of thumb (1 GB of RAM, 2 GB of swap), but that's WAY more
swap space than I've ever had any need for.  If your memory usage is
anything like mine, you can probably get along just fine with 512 MB of
swap.

But on the other hand, as RAM sizes have grown, so has software.  I
usually use FVWM2 instead of KDE or Gnome, so my memory needs might not be
typical.

              - Neil Parker