Re: What comes in 5GB of CentOS?
Posted by pschaff on 2011/12/11 14:43:36
To see the list of installed packages:
To see the space usage, as root run:
For a subdirectory such as /usr:
rpm -qa | sort | less
To see the space usage, as root run:
du --max-depth=1 -m -x /
For a subdirectory such as /usr:
du --max-depth=1 -m -x /usr/
Re: What comes in 5GB of CentOS?
Posted by gerald_clark on 2011/12/9 16:15:52
The text install does not give you many options.
If you don't have enough RAM, you get a text install.
Check the release notes.
If you don't have enough RAM, you get a text install.
Check the release notes.
Re: What comes in 5GB of CentOS?
Posted by HeadOnAPike on 2011/12/8 21:37:08
It didn't give me the option for any type of install.
Re: What comes in 5GB of CentOS?
Posted by hawaiian717 on 2011/12/8 21:13:55
Your swap partition is taking up part of the space on the VirtualBox disk image.
Whether you get a GUI or not depends on what you select to be installed. If you select "Minimal", you won't get a GUI, for that you should select "Desktop" or "Minimal Desktop".
Also, as it sounds like you selected a minimal install, there's a lot of stuff on the DVD image that didn't get installed into your virtual machine.
Whether you get a GUI or not depends on what you select to be installed. If you select "Minimal", you won't get a GUI, for that you should select "Desktop" or "Minimal Desktop".
Also, as it sounds like you selected a minimal install, there's a lot of stuff on the DVD image that didn't get installed into your virtual machine.
Re: What comes in 5GB of CentOS?
Posted by HeadOnAPike on 2011/12/8 21:12:51
The two install DVDs take up 5GB, right now it's only 2.6 GB on my computer. However, that still seems like a lot considering how little I installed. Regardless, I am wondering what's taking up the 2.6GB on my disk and the 5GB on he install DVDs? Is CentOS supposed to load up to the command line after install, without a GUI?
Re: What comes in 5GB of CentOS?
Posted by TrevorH on 2011/12/8 21:09:06
I'm not sure what you have installed to take up 5GB of disk space - that sounds like you must've selected everything! I have two systems here running CentOS 6 and one has 1170 packages installed taking up 3.5GB and the other has 838 packages/2.5GB. Figures obtained by running `rpm -qa | wc -l` and `df -m`. To find out about packages that are installed and available you can use commands like
The last one is well worth stopping and reading the output from before you reply Y to it as yum has a habit of expanding the package list to be removed and can sometimes go crazy and uninstall a bunch of critical packages.
yum list firefox\*
yum search firefox
yum install firefox
yum remove firefox
The last one is well worth stopping and reading the output from before you reply Y to it as yum has a habit of expanding the package list to be removed and can sometimes go crazy and uninstall a bunch of critical packages.
What comes in 5GB of CentOS?
Posted by HeadOnAPike on 2011/12/8 20:49:31
Sorry I'm a total Linux n00b here. I was just wondering what I installed that took so much space. I installed CentOS 6 64 bit on VirtualBox in Windows 7. When I was done installing, all I got was the command line. I had to install X Window, the Desktop packages and the fonts in order to get any sort of GUI, on which there are no applications listed. I feel like I installed 100MB of software instead of 5GB. Is CentOS 6 supposed to come with a bunch of stuff? I read that, for instance, it comes with Firefox 3.6, but I don't see that anywhere.
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