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From: Francesco Casadei <fcasadei@inwind.it>
To: Chris Hodapp <hodapp87@usa.net>
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Subject: Re: Disk space requirements
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On Sun, Jan 07, 2001 at 12:41:32AM -0700, Chris Hodapp wrote:
> What are the disk space requirements for the FreeBSD operating system? I
> was unable to find that on the website. I was wondering if it would run on a
> 486\33 MHz with 12 MB RAM, on a 200 MB or smaller partition.
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I once installed FreeBSD 3.3-RELEASE on a 486 DX2-50 with 12 MB RAM and 211MB
IDE disk. If you want to use your 486 for NAT/IPFW, DNS etc. it will do the
work quite well. The problem is the disk space: if you want to install
XFree86, netscape, emacs, ghostscript/gv to use your 486 as a home pc then
you'll need much more space. To give you an idea, on this workstation I have
the following packages:

XFree86-3.3.6_4
XFree86-aoutlibs-3.3.3
Xaw3d-1.5
apache_fp-1.3.14
autoconf-2.13
automake-1.4
bash-2.04
boehm-gc-5.0a4
bzip2-1.0.1
cvsup-bin-16.1
docbook-1.2
docbook-241
docbook-3.0
docbook-3.1
docbook-4.0
docbook-4.1
docproj-1.1
dsssl-docbook-modular-1.60_1
emacs-20.7
fetchmail-5.6.1
gettext-0.10.35
ghostscript-6.01_1
glib-1.2.8
gmake-3.79.1
gtk-1.2.8
gv-3.5.8
html-4.01
icewm-1.0.4_1
imlib-1.9.8.1
iso8879-1986
ispell-3.1.20c
jade-1.2.1
jpeg-6b
libslang-1.4.2
libtool-1.3.4_1
libungif-4.1.0b1
linux-jdk-1.2.2
linux_base-6.1
linuxdoc-1.1
m4-1.4
mkcatalog-1.1
mod_php-4.0.4
mpeg_play-2.4
mutt-1.2.5
netscape-navigator-4.76
netscape-remote-1.0
netscape-wrapper-2000.07.07
patch-2.5
png-1.0.8_1
popt-1.5
postgresql-7.0.3
procmail-3.15
qiv-1.5
qmail-1.03
rpm-3.0.6_4
serialmail-0.75
sgmlformat-1.7
tidy-20000804
tiff-3.5.5
ucspi-tcp-0.88
unix2dos-1.2
unzip-5.41
vilearn-1.0
w3m-0.1.11.p.23
xfstt-1.1_1
xpm-3.4k

These packages plus the source of the system take up:

df -h
Filesystem    Size   Used  Avail Capacity  Mounted on
/dev/wd0s1a    48M    24M    21M    53%    /
/dev/wd0s1e   1.8G  1020M   711M    59%    /usr
procfs        4.0K   4.0K     0B   100%    /proc

That is 5 times the capacity of your disk. Hope this helps.

	Francesco Casadei


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