From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Mar 8 20:42:42 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8DD8E16A4CE; Tue, 8 Mar 2005 20:42:42 +0000 (GMT) Received: from clunix.cl.msu.edu (clunix.cl.msu.edu [35.9.2.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1B30143D1F; Tue, 8 Mar 2005 20:42:42 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jerrymc@clunix.cl.msu.edu) Received: (from jerrymc@localhost) by clunix.cl.msu.edu (8.11.7p1+Sun/8.11.7) id j28KgUv17252; Tue, 8 Mar 2005 15:42:30 -0500 (EST) From: Jerry McAllister Message-Id: <200503082042.j28KgUv17252@clunix.cl.msu.edu> To: pgollucci@p6m7g8.com (Philip M. Gollucci) Date: Tue, 8 Mar 2005 15:42:29 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: <422E0950.4010400@p6m7g8.com> from "Philip M. Gollucci" at Mar 08, 2005 03:21:36 PM X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL2] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: Kris Kennaway cc: questions@freebsd.org cc: Mark Goodell Subject: Re: Size of FreeBSD X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 08 Mar 2005 20:42:42 -0000 > > Kris Kennaway wrote: > > >On Tue, Mar 08, 2005 at 11:04:11AM -0800, Mark Goodell wrote: > > > >>Could you please tell me how big FreeBSD is, in terms > >>of both (1) the bare minimum needed to run > >>applications and (2) the typical installation. How > >>many 1.44MB diskettes, for example. > > > >Isn't this information available on the website? > > > >Kris > > > Hi, > > This is either in the webpage or in the docs, but I forget where. > > Back in the days of ~4.5 I was able to install a stripped down version > in about 76MB. I think the last time I tried sometime around 5.0 to do > this it was up to about 90MB That's a really stripped down installation though. Between all binaries, plus source, plus ports tree and X and KDE I probably use around 1.2 Gigabyte for "typical" install. Install a few ports (Apache, MySQL, PHP, browser, etc) and a medium database and it can easily use a couple of Gigabytes. Add media files (sound, video) and the sky is the limit. ////jerry > ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Philip M. Gollucci > Senior Developer - Liquidity Services Inc. > Phone: 202.467.6868 x 268 > E-Mail: pgollucci@liquidation.com > Web: http://www.liquidation.com >