From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Mar 10 18:38:36 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AB35516A4CE for ; Thu, 10 Mar 2005 18:38:36 +0000 (GMT) Received: from web52910.mail.yahoo.com (web52910.mail.yahoo.com [206.190.39.187]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 03DF843D4C for ; Thu, 10 Mar 2005 18:38:36 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from goodell70@yahoo.com) Received: (qmail 1457 invoked by uid 60001); 10 Mar 2005 18:38:35 -0000 Comment: DomainKeys? See http://antispam.yahoo.com/domainkeys DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.com; b=6AkjLIIVbVcQSW0za6kmizMSChpQnvwrHp8TgiulR+iCW1HV+fyaqq1IlwfEObMiCURD0H67WPRghkrm8J1yLRGYAodVn+8cK8nkNLrfwnnJ7F+qNvtHvFM5UvkL92yIHolKeKhPiDaIIBzYkbU342kJn2Iru3SA1SG5KjRwvA4= ; Message-ID: <20050310183835.1455.qmail@web52910.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [209.158.197.2] by web52910.mail.yahoo.com via HTTP; Thu, 10 Mar 2005 10:38:35 PST Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2005 10:38:35 -0800 (PST) From: Mark Goodell To: Jerry McAllister , "Philip M. Gollucci" In-Reply-To: 6667 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii cc: Kris Kennaway cc: questions@freebsd.org cc: Mark Goodell Subject: Re: Size of FreeBSD X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2005 18:38:36 -0000 THank you Philip, Jerry, Kris: (Actually, I went back and forth through the website literature trying to figure this out, and finally gave up. It may be that the question itself treads on an issue that no longer is challenged - the size of OS installations. I'm frustrated that they have to be so big. THank you again for responding. FreeBSD has great logical appeal to me, notwithstanding.) Mark Mark Goodell Richmond, VA --- Jerry McAllister wrote: > > > > Kris Kennaway wrote: > > > > >On Tue, Mar 08, 2005 at 11:04:11AM -0800, Mark > Goodell wrote: > > > > > >>Could you please tell me how big FreeBSD is, in > terms > > >>of both (1) the bare minimum needed to run > > >>applications and (2) the typical installation. > How > > >>many 1.44MB diskettes, for example. > > > > > >Isn't this information available on the website? > > > > > >Kris > > > > > Hi, > > > > This is either in the webpage or in the docs, but > I forget where. > > > > Back in the days of ~4.5 I was able to install a > stripped down version > > in about 76MB. I think the last time I tried > sometime around 5.0 to do > > this it was up to about 90MB > > That's a really stripped down installation though. > > Between all binaries, plus source, plus ports tree > and X and KDE > I probably use around 1.2 Gigabyte for "typical" > install. > Install a few ports (Apache, MySQL, PHP, browser, > etc) and a medium > database and it can easily use a couple of > Gigabytes. Add media > files (sound, video) and the sky is the limit. > > ////jerry > > > > ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Philip M. Gollucci > > Senior Developer - Liquidity Services Inc. > > Phone: 202.467.6868 x 268 > > E-Mail: pgollucci@liquidation.com > > Web: http://www.liquidation.com > > > __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Small Business - Try our new resources site! http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/resources/