Date: Sat, 8 Jul 2000 17:39:54 +0100 (GMT Daylight Time) From: Dutch Collins <dutch@charm.net> To: Josh Paetzel <jpaetzel@hutchtel.net> Cc: Yevhen Miroshnychenko <miroshny@cip.physik.uni-bonn.de>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: X-Window on computer with 170MB HDD Message-ID: <Pine.WNT.4.21.0007081733210.-361675@muffy> In-Reply-To: <015c01b42826$431d2da0$1df3fea9@josh>
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On Sat, 13 Jan 1990, Josh Paetzel wrote: > Date: Sat, 13 Jan 1990 10:57:42 -0600 > From: Josh Paetzel <jpaetzel@hutchtel.net> > To: Yevhen Miroshnychenko <miroshny@cip.physik.uni-bonn.de>, > questions@FreeBSD.ORG > Subject: Re: X-Window on computer with 170MB HDD > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Yevhen Miroshnychenko > To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG > Sent: Friday, July 07, 2000 1:08 AM > Subject: X-Window on computer with 170MB HDD > > > Hello! > > I have a computer with i486SX ,18MB RAM and 170MB HDD. Is it possible to install FreeBSD with > X-Window on such a system and ecpect a "normal" work at lest with Netscape? > I have tried to install via FTP the latest version with default settings for harddrive,but it appears that there is not enough space for X-Window with this configuration. May be I have to use much earlier versions of FreeBSD ? I looked through the FAQ but there are no direct recommendations about which version to choose in case you have an old system. > > Looking forward to hearing from you soon. > Yevhen Miroshnychenko > > I think you are in one of those areas where doing what you want to do might be theoretically possible, but probably would require a lot of tweaking to get it to work. The avalilability of cheap hardware makes it unlikely that too many people have tried to do what you want to do. (For example, I bought a 15gig drive the other day for $99.99) Considering that it might take 6 or 7 (or more) tries to get your system installed in that 170 meg drive (if it is possible at all) you might be able to find a larger drive (another 300-400megs would be just fine.) > > Josh I would not try it. You will not get "normal" anything. I did a 3.2-R install from CD to a 500m disk on a 486dx2/100 32meg of ram. I was not happy with x with KDE. I think using KDE was a bad idea on that machine. Personally I would do a minium size install without x on a 170meg drive. But, there are small footprint o/s, picobsd I think. -d -- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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