Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1998 16:50:43 -0500 From: George Vagner <vagner@vagner.com> To: Jason Godfrey <godfreja@dalamar.cs.uwec.edu> Cc: Adrian <adrianb@iinet.net.au>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: XWindows Size & Creating Paritions Message-ID: <35DC9A33.A0EB670C@vagner.com> References: <Pine.LNX.3.96.980819212755.11837B-100000@dalamar.cs.uwec.edu>
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I had freebsd installed with xwindows on a 200M laptop and 17M swap with just enough room to install netscape but had to move some stuff around to different partitions to be able to untar netscape and install. I used the mininial installation from floppies and then just copied the xserver files over via ftp. Jason Godfrey wrote: > > On Wed, 20 Aug 1997, Adrian wrote: > > > Could you install FreeBSD with XWindows easily in a 500 meg partition? > > Not sure on this one. The XWindows installation on my system takes up 76 > megs (not couting KDE - a cool window manager). It can probably be done, > but I think you might be tight on space for extra programs like netscape, > etc. > > Anyone know for sure? > > > > > Also, what software can you use to create a partition without losing > > everything on your disk? > > > > fips will take an existsing partition and split it into 2. fips can be > found at ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/tools/dist/fips11.zip > > Be sure to read the documentation that comes with it. It contains > important information like the fact you have to defragment your disk > before you use it. > > -- Jason > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > Jason Godfrey godfreja@acm.cs.uwec.edu > FreeBSD - The power to serve > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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