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On 22/01/18 16:48, Julian Hall wrote: > Hi Paul, > > Thanks for that. I tried Mint 18.3 with a 4Gb stick but it siad minimum > space required 5.6Gb - possibly a new standard. I had an 8Gb stick free > so I installed on that and it works fine. > > Kind regards, > > Julian Yay, maybe these are 8gb, not sure I thought they were 4, i have loads of these USB keys around atm. The iso here is 1.3 gb. Ah. I think I read on the list, for persistence you need a min of 4gb free space, which would work out about right if you take 1.3GB + 4GB, = 5.3 GB, Paul Paul > > On 22/01/18 15:05, Paul Sutton wrote: >> Ah, makes sense, maybe it is better for new users to be presented with >> a front end that closely matches what they are used to, menu in bottom >> corner (for windows) and a icon bar thing for mac users, which can be >> replicated on linux too or something similar. >> >> With mint you can download either LMDE (mint debian) Cinnamon or Mate, >> so they work out at < 4gb. >> >> >> Paul >> >> On 22/01/18 15:00, Eion MacDonald wrote: >>> >>> On 22/01/18 14:42, Paul Sutton wrote: >>>> esp for 1 distro, >>> As long as only one desktop environment is selected in ISO >>> >>> Full DE selection e.g. KDE, Genome, XFCE etc on one DVD is bigger than >>> 4GB. I tend to use 8GB minimum USB for full ISO download >>> > > -- http://www.zleap.net diaspora : zleap@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Torbay Tech Jam http://torbaytechjam.org.uk Next Tech jam 2nd Saturday of the month -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG https://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq