Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2005 13:35:42 -0600 From: "W. D." <WD@US-Webmasters.com> To: questions@freebsd.org Cc: Mark Goodell <goodell70@yahoo.com> Subject: Re: Size of FreeBSD Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.2.20050310132810.14b61570@209.152.117.178> In-Reply-To: <20050310183835.1455.qmail@web52910.mail.yahoo.com> References: <6667>
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At 12:38 3/10/2005, Mark Goodell wrote: >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 =20 >> > >>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.=20 >> How >> > >>many 1.44MB diskettes, for example. =20 At the bottom of this page is the recommended sizing: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/install-steps.html However, you can get a version of FreeBSD to run from=20 a single floppy disk: http://people.freebsd.org/~picobsd/picobsd.html There are various versions in between these sizes: http://people.freebsd.org/~picobsd/ A Google search: http://www.Google.com/search?q=3D%22FreeBSD-Small%22+site%3AMail-Archive.com To subscribe to the 'FreeBSD-Small' list: mailto:freebsd-small-subscribe@freebsd.org HTH Start Here to Find It Fast!=99 ->= http://www.US-Webmasters.com/best-start-page/ $8.77 Domain Names -> http://domains.us-webmasters.com/
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