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From: Dorian Gray on 2 Jun 2010 06:29 In article <ptWdnbB1y940spvRnZ2dnUVZ8l-dnZ2d(a)brightview.co.uk>, David Kennedy <davidkennedy(a)nospamherethankyou.invalid> wrote: > Dorian Gray wrote: > > > The system requirements for Leopard say 9 GB of available disk > > space. > > When I did my powerbook, IIRC, then it said it needed around 4Gb What said you needed 4 GB? The documentation for Leopard says 9 GB. > although in practise it turned out to be less than that. Can you remember how much less? Cheers.
From: David Kennedy on 2 Jun 2010 06:44 Dorian Gray wrote: > In article<ptWdnbB1y940spvRnZ2dnUVZ8l-dnZ2d(a)brightview.co.uk>, > David Kennedy<davidkennedy(a)nospamherethankyou.invalid> wrote: > >> Dorian Gray wrote: >> >>> The system requirements for Leopard say 9 GB of available disk >>> space. >> >> When I did my powerbook, IIRC, then it said it needed around 4Gb > > What said you needed 4 GB? The documentation for Leopard says 9 GB. > The installer prog. when doing the install >> although in practise it turned out to be less than that. > > Can you remember how much less? IIRC then it ended up using just under 2Gb - presumably as it assesses the amount needed for the installation but some files are either overwritten of deleted thus reducing the space taken up by the final product. -- David Kennedy http://www.anindianinexile.com
From: David Sankey on 2 Jun 2010 07:00 In article <D.Gray-18C96C.11001702062010(a)nntp-serv.cam.ac.uk>, Dorian Gray <D.Gray(a)picture.invalid> wrote: > Hi, > > I need to upgrade my iBook G4 to Leopard (10.5) to be compatible with > iPad. The system requirements for Leopard say 9 GB of available disk > space. However if I am upgrading from Tiger, does anyone know from > experience how much extra I will need? I only have 9 GB available and > if I lose too much of it I think the machine will become unusable. The internal on my Powerbook G4 is Leopard, with 8.3 GB free, the external with Tiger has 17.6 GB free, both 80 GB disks. Stuff installed on them is very similar (I don't remember, but it looks like I did an import from the latter to the former). I recall disk usage on my desktop G5 going up when I upgraded that from Tiger to Leopard, so that was enough to notice, say a few (5 to 10) GB. So I would say that it looks like it'll be very tight. Kind regards, Dave
From: J. J. Lodder on 2 Jun 2010 09:01 Dorian Gray <D.Gray(a)picture.invalid> wrote: > In article <1jjgkx3.1s248s1ieh3hcN(a)de-ster.xs4all.nl>, > nospam(a)de-ster.demon.nl (J. J. Lodder) wrote: > > > Dorian Gray <D.Gray(a)picture.invalid> wrote: > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > I need to upgrade my iBook G4 to Leopard (10.5) to be compatible with > > > iPad. The system requirements for Leopard say 9 GB of available disk > > > space. However if I am upgrading from Tiger, does anyone know from > > > experience how much extra I will need? I only have 9 GB available and > > > if I lose too much of it I think the machine will become unusable. > > > > The same. > > The installer first writes all new files to disk, > > Yes, I thought that might be the case. I would be able to make > available an extra GB or three during installation by moving some stuff > off temporarily, so that shouldn't be a problem, but... You have to. Installation will fail if here isn't enough space. > > then it deletes the old ones in a final clean-up. > > So it claims space needed for all files it might want to wri > > > > You'll have some space left after all, > > My question was exactly how much? Impossible to say. Depends on how much junk (languages, printer drivers, etc) there was, and how much you will install. Just do it, and see, Jan
From: whisky-dave on 2 Jun 2010 09:20
"Dorian Gray" <D.Gray(a)picture.invalid> wrote in message news:D.Gray-3344A3.11270902062010(a)nntp-serv.cam.ac.uk... > In article <1jjgkx3.1s248s1ieh3hcN(a)de-ster.xs4all.nl>, > nospam(a)de-ster.demon.nl (J. J. Lodder) wrote: > >> Dorian Gray <D.Gray(a)picture.invalid> wrote: >> >> > Hi, >> > >> > I need to upgrade my iBook G4 to Leopard (10.5) to be compatible with >> > iPad. The system requirements for Leopard say 9 GB of available disk >> > space. However if I am upgrading from Tiger, does anyone know from >> > experience how much extra I will need? I only have 9 GB available and >> > if I lose too much of it I think the machine will become unusable. >> >> The same. >> The installer first writes all new files to disk, > > Yes, I thought that might be the case. I would be able to make > available an extra GB or three during installation by moving some stuff > off temporarily, so that shouldn't be a problem, but... > >> then it deletes the old ones in a final clean-up. >> So it claims space needed for all files it might want to wri >> >> You'll have some space left after all, > > My question was exactly how much? The Q is more difficult to answer because we don;t know what yuor current install might be like. When I put leiopard on my G4 tower I chose custom install with no langage option and no printer drivers, whch saved nealry 1.5GB. If you're Tiger OS has the printer drivers it might update them, all of them when even they aren;t used. Not sure why your library is so large, maybe final cut pro dumped some stuff there. I thought a fresh system 10.5 only requred a min of 2GB or so. |