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Date:      Mon, 3 Jun 1996 11:16:02 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu>
To:        pysar@trentu.ca
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Installation
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.91.960603111509.13784L-100000@riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <9606021839.AA20904@blaze.trentu.ca>

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On Sun, 2 Jun 1996 pysar@trentu.ca wrote:

> 
> Hi, I will be getting a new computer in the next few days (a p100) and I want
> to install Free BSD on it.  I am pretty sure that this computer will come with
> DOS installed already.  I know that I can DEFRAG my hard disk and then
> install Free BSD on the free partition but I was wondering how much room
> I should allocate for Free BSD.  My HDD will be 1.2 GB and I want to have
> X-Windows installed and later on I'll be installing some programming 
> languages and then I want to have the rest free for DOS and WIN95 stuff.

I would say 200-300MB, depending.  

A 540MB second disk is great in these situations. 

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major




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