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Date:      Sun, 27 Feb 2005 12:49:01 +0100
From:      Ramiro Aceves <ea1abz@wanadoo.es>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Installation instructions for Firefox somewhere?
Message-ID:  <4221B3AD.4000708@wanadoo.es>
In-Reply-To: <956914133.20050227100144@wanadoo.fr>
References:  <20050226130211.4162005f.albi@scii.nl> <LOBBIFDAGNMAMLGJJCKNEEIMFAAA.tedm@toybox.placo.com> <1262756249.20050226141419@wanadoo.fr> <20050226142726.M5182@reiteration.net> <43908349.20050226154151@wanadoo.fr> <20050227045510.M67328@reiteration.net> <956914133.20050227100144@wanadoo.fr>

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Anthony Atkielski wrote:
> John writes:
> 
> 
>>I suppose I'm nit-picking here, but you would cron it rather than running it
>>by hand.
> 
> 
> It's mostly the space that I prefer not to part with.
> 
> 
>>How much space have you got to play with?
> 
> 
> About 2 GB total remaining on /usr.  Just installing X stuff gobbled up
> a few hundred megabytes, it seems.
> 

Hello Anthony,

If you have 2 GB remaining in /usr, install the ports tree, it will eat 
about 350 MB. I have updated recently the pots tree and yesterday I 
installed successfully Firefox-1.0_7,1 nicely on this slow AMD 400 MHz 
machine from the ports, and it works ok.

Good luck.
Ramiro.





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