Hardware Requirements Previous Next Table of Contents 3. Support for network interface card is provided by loadable modules, so there is no need to compile these drivers into the kernel. The optimum disk space allocated for swap depends critically on the way the system will be used.
Many people just choose to set aside twice as much disk space as they have RAM space.
Systems with large RAM may not need so much swap space, especially if there are only a few users. The installation process supports systems with no swap space. 150 MBytes of disk space for a standard system running applications with the X Window System. The latest installation disks are especially organized to provide an easy installation path for machines with small memories. This mode of operation even works if 1 MByte of the RAM is used as a ramdisk when the machine is booted, implying that only 3 Mbytes of RAM is absolutely essential for using Debian Linux on a PC in order to use it as an X server.