From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jun 24 18:43:42 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA18425 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 24 Jun 1998 18:43:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from lucy.bedford.net (lucy.bedford.net [206.99.145.54]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA18270 for ; Wed, 24 Jun 1998 18:42:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from listread@lucy.bedford.net) Received: (from listread@localhost) by lucy.bedford.net (8.8.8/8.8.8) id VAA04163; Wed, 24 Jun 1998 21:37:23 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from listread) Message-Id: <199806250137.VAA04163@lucy.bedford.net> Subject: Re: Brilliant question about FreeBSD In-Reply-To: <000701bd9f86$d0396ba0$a05539cb@default> from John at "Jun 25, 98 01:13:11 am" To: grief@newave.net.au (John) Date: Wed, 24 Jun 1998 21:37:23 -0400 (EDT) Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-no-archive: yes Reply-to: djv@bedford.net From: CyberPeasant X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL38 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG John wrote: [Charset iso-8859-1 unsupported, filtering to ASCII...] > I looked everywhere on your site and could not find, HOW MANY MEGS IS FREEBSD!!! > > > How many megs IS FreeBSD??? > > For a minimum installation (if there is one)? Golly, it varies. It depends. Here's the disk usage of a system of mine, a 486/33, which is rather minimal, to my way of thinking. It has a basic developer installation, and these packages: [root@lucy /usr]# pkg_info -a | grep Information | cut -f3 -d" " elm-2.4ME+38: lynx-2.8rel.2: less-332: fetchmail-4.3.8: procmail-3.11p7: vim-4.6: pgp-5.0i: tcp_wrappers-7.6: linux_lib-2.4: lrzsz-0.12.16: kermit-6.0.192: minicom-1.78: rdate-1.0: Also a "bash" from outside the pkg system. (~1.5MB) Disk usage: [root@lucy /root]# df -k Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Avail Capacity Mounted on /dev/wd0s4a 31775 19605 9628 67% / <-- the min. to boot /dev/wd0s4f 102911 88371 6308 93% /usr /dev/wd0s4e 29727 16648 10701 61% /var [root@lucy /root]# The total disk usage is ~130 MB, not counting swap. (I think I have about 60MB for swap on lucy, more than I need.) This is a non-X "developer" installation, i.e. it has manpages and the C compiler and related tools. These all go under /usr. A breakdown of /usr: [root@lucy /usr]# du -s * Sizes in K 12033 bin Executables 1 compat 2 etc 1750 games 3690 include Needed only for development 1 info 9207 lib libraries. Could be heavily trimmed (50-75% "fluff") 68 libdata 5135 libexec miscellaneous daemons, parts of the C compiler 7715 local optional stuff I use 1 man 101 mdec stuff 1 obj 3785 sbin system admin tools 26714 share man pages, and related material 18166 src I have kernel sources installed. [root@lucy /usr]# A minimal system can probably be shovelled into a 60MB disk. Then there's picoBSD, sizes like 1.5MB. Some volunteer should do clean installs of each of the options and report the results. I might have an empty disk coming on line next week, so if no one beats me to it, I'll try to remember to give it a shot. It would make a nice addition to the sysintall screen. Dave -- http://www.microsoft.com/security: `Microsoft Windows NT Server is the most secure network operating system available.' Don Quixote: `You are mistaken, Sancho.' To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message