05-30-2017, 01:54 PM
(This post was last modified: 05-30-2017, 02:01 PM by gold_finger.)
Don't know exact answer, but educated guess is that new LL install will probably use approx. 6-6.5GB of space. (Same approx. number for Mint Xfce or Mate versions. Don't know about the others you list.) The installs will need "room to breath", so make their root partitions slightly bigger than min needed. I'd recommend 8GB min for LL and Mint.
Another very good light weight distro for you to test would be AntiX. You don't have that listed, but I'm certain it will work well on that machine too. Believe that will take up approx. 3.5-4GB on install, so make root partition for that around 6GB to be safe.
If you don't already know, you only need one Swap partition (2GB) on the drive. All distros can use it -- they don't need their own separate Swap partitions.
P.s.
HINT: Unless you specify otherwise during install, each distro you install will overwrite grub boot loader in MBR and take over boot control. (Last one installed will be the one now controlling boot process and presenting grub menu.) If you decide to delete last one installed, boot into one of the others and install grub to MBR first so you don't lose ability to boot computer after the deletion of controlling OS.)
Another very good light weight distro for you to test would be AntiX. You don't have that listed, but I'm certain it will work well on that machine too. Believe that will take up approx. 3.5-4GB on install, so make root partition for that around 6GB to be safe.
If you don't already know, you only need one Swap partition (2GB) on the drive. All distros can use it -- they don't need their own separate Swap partitions.
P.s.
HINT: Unless you specify otherwise during install, each distro you install will overwrite grub boot loader in MBR and take over boot control. (Last one installed will be the one now controlling boot process and presenting grub menu.) If you decide to delete last one installed, boot into one of the others and install grub to MBR first so you don't lose ability to boot computer after the deletion of controlling OS.)
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