From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Oct 30 13:23:31 2003 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 BE26416A4CE for ; Thu, 30 Oct 2003 13:23:31 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.uh.edu (SanJacinto.Mail.uh.edu [129.7.235.116]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E511C43F85 for ; Thu, 30 Oct 2003 13:23:30 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from Keith.Fortenbach@mail.uh.edu) Received: from conversion-daemon by mail.uh.edu (Sun Internet Mail Server sims.4.0.2001.07.26.11.50.p9) id <0HNL00501A0D7Z@mail.uh.edu> for FreeBSD-questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Thu, 30 Oct 2003 15:23:02 -0600 (CST) Received: from localhost (Colorado.Mail.UH.EDU [129.7.235.114]) by mail.uh.edu (Sun Internet Mail Server sims.4.0.2001.07.26.11.50.p9) with ESMTP id <0HNL001JW9YMGT@mail.uh.edu> for FreeBSD-questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Thu, 30 Oct 2003 15:20:47 -0600 (CST) Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2003 15:20:46 -0600 (CST) From: Keith.Fortenbach@mail.uh.edu To: FreeBSD-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Message-id: <482006602.1067548846966.JavaMail.root@localhost> MIME-version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Sun(TM) Web Access 1.2 Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: Just curious, how large is 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, 30 Oct 2003 21:23:31 -0000 I just purchased FreeBSD 5.1 and got it installed sucessfully-YEAH!-yesterday. I am a "new newbie" with no previous experience with UNIX, so I feel this is a wonderful accomplishment. I ran accross one problem, though. Every time I installed ALL, the installation froze after about 30 minutes. I tried this about 8 times and realized that every time it froze on the exact same place. I eventually came to the conclusion that ALL could not fit on my hard drive (4Gb total) and installed the USER configuration with the X thing and only KDE packages and the installation was successful. So was my conclusion correct? Do I need a larger harddrive? Is 4Gb not enough for ALL? How big is FreeBSD anyway?