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Amiga computer related discussion => Amiga Hardware Issues and discussion => Topic started by: Invisix on January 21, 2004, 11:06:31 PM

Title: AmigaOS boot partition size -- how much?
Post by: Invisix on January 21, 2004, 11:06:31 PM

Currently I have a 3gig harddrive.

How much space should I use for an Amiga OS install? I am going to upgrade to Amiga OS 3.9 soon, so how big should I make the boot (workbench?) partition? Thanks. :-D

Title: Re: AmigaOS boot partition size -- how much?
Post by: bloodline on January 21, 2004, 11:08:33 PM

Make the Boot Partition 1Gig and the Work partiton 2gig

Title: Re: AmigaOS boot partition size -- how much?
Post by: QuikSanz on January 21, 2004, 11:11:19 PM

Hi,

150 to 200 Mb should be big enough to hold the OS, all the patches, hacks and utilities and any other stuff you can think of. Even MS says it should be as small as possable and to avoid writing to it.

Chris

Title: Re: AmigaOS boot partition size -- how much?
Post by: itix on January 21, 2004, 11:12:21 PM

0.5 gig for AmigaOS is enough. In fact it is more than enough.

Title: Re: AmigaOS boot partition size -- how much?
Post by: Ryu on January 21, 2004, 11:23:28 PM

150mb is plenty, I concider my OS3.9 install to be very bloated and its 2 years old now...

13.Ram Disk:> dirsize sys:
sys:                             116.09 Megabytes  [Files:  5,878  Dirs:    464]

Title: Re: AmigaOS boot partition size -- how much?
Post by: Matt_H on January 21, 2004, 11:46:47 PM

I gave my Workbench partition 700MB on my 18GB drive. My 2 secondary Amigas have 100MB Workbench partitions on 800MB drives.