Q: Wow, that's a lot of files. How much disk storage will I need?
A: The following lists the approximate disk space required for several major configurations, and additional storage required for some optional packages:
| Execution-only environment | 300 KBytes
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| Developing C programs | 15 MBytes
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| Developing C++ programs | 20 MBytes
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| Developing Objective-C programs | 16 MBytes
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| Additional storage for RHIDE | 4 MBytes
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| Additional storage for DJGPP sources | 6 MBytes
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| Additional storage for GDB | 1.1 MBytes
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| Additional storage for Emacs | 30 MBytes
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| Additional storage for Flex | 280 KBytes
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| Additional storage for Bison | 310 KBytes
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| Additional storage for Diffutils | 560 KBytes
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| Additional storage for Make | 650 KBytes
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| Additional storage for Patch | 180 KBytes
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| Additional storage for Sed | 200 KBytes
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| Additional storage for Graphics libraries | 4 MBytes
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Note that the above lists only approximate numbers. In particular, the disk cluster size can significantly change the actual disk space required by some of the distributions (those with a large number of files). The numbers above are for disks which have 8KB or smaller clusters.
In addition to the space for installing the software, you will need some
free disk space for the swap file. You should leave enough free disk
space to make the total virtual memory at least 20 MBytes; that will be
enough for most applications. Invoke the go32-v2.exe program
without arguments to see how much DPMI memory and swap space DJGPP
applications can use. Depending on your DPMI host, you might need to
review its virtual memory settings in addition to leaving free disk
space; CWSDPMI only requires that enough free disk space be available,
but other DPMI hosts have special settings to specify how much virtual
memory they let their clients use, as explained in how to set up memory, below.