are 10 gb enough for vista?

[John Jay Smith]

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

 

[Henry]

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.

 

[Bill Condie]

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

 

[Colin Barnhorst]

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]

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]

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).

 

[kateikyoushii]

I could install on a 12GB partition.

 

[Colin Barnhorst]

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.