Vista - possible to install Vista Ultimate on a 18.5 partition?

Will the Vista installer continue with the installation if only an 18.5GB
partition is present? Has anybody managed to install Vista on a partition
smaller than 20GB? 'Cause the minimal requirements say 40GB free space for
the installation, that's ridiculous. Will Vista refuse even to attempt to
install just because I have 1Gb less than required?

Semjon Katatschkow wrote:
> Will the Vista installer continue with the installation if only an
> 18.5GB partition is present?

Yes. My test installs onto virtual machines have all been to a disk of about
16Gb in size.

> Has anybody managed to install Vista on
> a partition smaller than 20GB?

Yes. See above.

> 'Cause the minimal requirements say
> 40GB free space for the installation, that's ridiculous.

I agree. Over the average lifetime of a OS install, that is going to be far
too **small** for a "production" Vista install. I reckon on adding 20Gb to
that or just going ahead and double it.

> Will Vista
> refuse even to attempt to install just because I have 1Gb less than
> required?

No. But if this is a serious "production" install, that is, one you intend
to use as your main OS install, not just for testing, you really will need
that 40Gb, if not a damn sight more space than that.

Regards
Rob Moir.

Thanx for the info

"Robert Moir" <robspamtrap@gmail.com> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
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> Semjon Katatschkow wrote:
>> Will the Vista installer continue with the installation if only an
>> 18.5GB partition is present?
>
> Yes. My test installs onto virtual machines have all been to a disk of
> about 16Gb in size.
>
>> Has anybody managed to install Vista on
>> a partition smaller than 20GB?
>
> Yes. See above.
>
>> 'Cause the minimal requirements say
>> 40GB free space for the installation, that's ridiculous.
>
> I agree. Over the average lifetime of a OS install, that is going to be
> far too **small** for a "production" Vista install. I reckon on adding
> 20Gb to that or just going ahead and double it.
>
>> Will Vista
>> refuse even to attempt to install just because I have 1Gb less than
>> required?
>
> No. But if this is a serious "production" install, that is, one you intend
> to use as your main OS install, not just for testing, you really will need
> that 40Gb, if not a damn sight more space than that.
>
> Regards
> Rob Moir.
>