How many GB of free space needed to install Leopard?

Before I install Leopard to upgrade my computer (I currently have Panther), how much free space is recommended? I have about 6 GB, I know not much... I am currently moving a lot of photos over to an external hard drive to free up more space. But not sure how much space is really needed. Any advice?

paulae wrote:
Before I install Leopard to upgrade my computer (I currently have Panther), how much free space is recommended? I have about 6 GB, I know not much... I am currently moving a lot of photos over to an external hard drive to free up more space. But not sure how much space is really needed. Any advice?
You should definitely get a LOT more free space. 6GB is very little even if you run panther. you need at least 15-20% of hard drive space free to avoid problems resulting from disk fragmentation. leopard needs about 11GB but as I said you need way more than that for normal computer operation. you should free up space and maybe get a bigger drive. I would also recommend defragging your drive before attempting leopard installation given how little free space you've got now. one way to do that is to clone your system to another drive, boot from that drive and clone it back to the internal drive.

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